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Bosses of Silverstone have said that the stability of a new 10-year extension to its deal to host the British Grand Prix will help underpin further upgrades to the venue over the course of the next decade. The new agreement was confirmed last week.

There is uncertainty surrounding the future of Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner after the bosses of the parent energy drinks firm launched an investigation into his conduct. Austrian chiefs of Red Bull moved to take action on complaints made by

Formula 1 bosses have revealed a tweak to the way Sprint race weekends work in 2024 to help drivers with car set-up over the course of the race weekends. Previously, drivers were committed to car set-ups after a single practice session on Friday of a

The reigning British Touring Car Championship Jack Sears Trophy holder Andrew Watson will for 2024 switch to Speedworks Motorsport’s Toyota Gazoo Racing UK line-up. The Northern Irishman had a strong sportscar background as an Aston Martin junior dri

The Excelr8 Motorsport British Touring Car Championship squad has formed a partnership with category powerhouse Team Dynamics in “a multi-year” agreement which will mean the Hyundai squad moves bases. Bosses of Excelr8’s four-car Hyundai BTCC squad,

French firm Alpine has revealed its driver line-up ahead of a two-car assault on this year’s World Endurance Championship with its new A424 machine. The new Oreca-built 3.4-litre machine will make its bow in the opening round of WEC this season in Qa

British GT 2023 title contender James Cottingham will race in the World Endurance Championship this year with a United Autosports McLaren 720S in the championship’s new LMGT3 class. His move means 2023’s two chief British GT3 championship-protagonist

Ginetta’s new G56 GT4 Evo will make its British GT debut this year in the hands of Colin White and Tom Holland driving for White’s own CWS squad. Multiple Ginetta champion White and CWS had a British GT4 outing in 2021’s season closer, seven years af

British GT reigning champion duo Darren Leung and Dan Harper will race in GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup this year in Century Motorsport’s first full-time international campaign. Harper recently confirmed that the Pro-Am duo won’t be defending

British Formula 4 champion and GB3 title-battler Alex Dunne has sealed his graduation to Formula 1-supporting FIA Formula 3 this year with the MP Motorsport team. The 18-year-old Irishman, having won 2022’s British F4 championship, fought for GB3’s t

British Formula 4 race-winner Josh Irfan is stepping up to GB3 this year with reigning champion team JHR Developments. The 15-year-old had his freshman single-seater season last year and took two British F4 race wins with Rodin Carlin. Irfan also did

Brothers Conner and Luke Garlick will go head-to-head in equal machinery for the first time this season as Xentek Motorsport team-mates in the Ginetta GT championship. The brothers raced on the same Ginetta GT championship grid last year, and both wi

Motorsport UK chairman David Richards believes getting more young drivers into the sport’s top level is vital to Rally GB’s prospects of returning to the World championship. The ex-Subaru WRC team chief, who along with the FIA’s vice president for sp

Max McRae will form part of the Great Britain team in the upcoming Rally of Nations event in Mexico. Based in the city of Leon and using sections of the country’s former World championship event route, the rally takes place from February 23-25. Scot

WRC2 contender Chris Ingram was reunited with his first rally car during the recent Dukeries Motor Club trackday at Blyton when he was on hand to offer coaching and guidance to the teenage competitors in the Junior 1000 series. Back in 2011, young In

Greek rally driver George Vassilakis has joined countryman Jourdan Serderidis on the entry list for this year’s Malcolm Wilson Rally. Vassilakis will drive a Ford Fiesta Rally2 on his UK debut, having previously driven a similar car on the World Rall

Scottish youngster Meghan Okane will step up to a Ford Fiesta R2 in 2024 as she aims to become junior Scottish rally champion. Okane, 23 years old, has campaigned a Ford Fiesta ST for the past two seasons but has bought an R2 from Irish driver Aoife

Blistering pace over the second road sector of the Cambrian Road Rally ensured that Dan Morris and Kieran Price took victory on the event. Morris, bringing his Targa experience to the fore, took a minute out of his main rivals on the gravel, despite

Extreme sports star Travis Pastrana will make his debut in the all-electric Extreme E off-road series this weekend at the Desert X Prix in Saudi Arabia with a brand-new team. Pastrana, the founder and champion of the Nitrocross rallycross series, wi

Frenchman Anthony Pelfrene has become the first driver of an internal combustion engined car to sign up for the 2024 World Rallycross Championship. Following the news that Kristoffersson Motorsport is building a pair of new Volkswagen Polo RX1 (Super

BMW Mini Rallycross driver Abbie McGuinness will switch from the BTRDA Clubmans Rallycross Championship to contest the BMW Mini category with the British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy this season. The Suffolk driver narrowly missed out on

The life of John Surtees will be a major feature of this year’s Goodwood Revival in September, seven years on from his death in 2017. To mark 60 years since Surtees won his Formula 1 title and in the year that he would have celebrated his 90th birth

Every driver in this year’s Classic Formula Ford 1600 Championship will get £90 off each race entry fee thanks to increased support from longtime category sponsor SDC. Bedford-based construction industry contractor SDC is continuing and increasing it

Jan de Rooy: 1943-2024 MN was sad to learn of the death of former rallycross ace Jan de Rooy at the age of 80. In the 1970s, he became well known in the UK for competing in rallycross in an unlikely Daf 55 with great success at a time when the sport

Motorsport News was sad to learn of the death at the age of 87 of former prolific historic racer Don Shead. Shead first made his name in powerboat racing and designed a boat later used by BRDC chairman Tommy Sopwith. Shead was a regular winner at Eur

The HERO-ERA organisation is making a push for more UK-based competitors to join the entry list for the Arctic Midnight Sun Rally. The 14-day classic rally starts on June 30 from Gothenburg and completes an anti-clockwise lap of Sweden and Norway, go

This year’s Historic Rally Festival will not feature demonstration special stages at the Weston Park venue in Staffordshire (left). The annual celebration of rallying history has been based at Weston Park for several years, but the 2023 event was hal

Michael Igoe and Will Atkins made it three wins in a row in the Circuit Rally Championship with their Citroen C3 Rally2. However, it was another five-minute chicane penalty for Patrick O’Donovan and Jack Morton (Hyundai i20 R5) that finally decided

With a 13-second lead on the opening stage, Steve Hill and Matt Daniels (Lancer E6) were never seriously troubled on the way to victory in Class B by over two minutes. Wayne and Darren Larbalestier (Lancer E3) held a comfortable second all day. As Ch

Running alongside the historic event, the modern element of the Riponian Stages delivered another win for Elliot Payne as he warmed up for his 2024 season with Patrick Walsh on the notes in their Ford Fiesta Rally2. Payne, who is plotting a joint BRC

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David Brabham will have his first full-time championship campaign since 2012 in 2024’s GT Cup joining reigning champion Paul Bailey in a Brabham BT62 and seeking the car’s first title. Le Mans winner and former Formula 1 racer Brabham’s last full ca