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Red Bull Racing bosses have said that its new 2024 challenger, the RB20, is an evolution of last year’s all-conquering design but it has also taken design cues from rival machines. The wraps came off the new challenger last week and it follows the R

Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has said that the Italian team has not underestimated the steps it needs to take to rein in the all-conquering Red Bull at the launch of the Scuderia’s SF-24 machine. The car was revealed in an online event las

We said this moment would come, but it has happened remarkably quickly. The revamped points system in the World Rally Championship mean that while Esapekka Lappi broke his six-year victory drought on Rally Sweden last weekend, he didn’t claim the big

Reigning British Touring Car Championship title holder Ash Sutton has set his sights on creating history in 2024 as the NAPA Racing UK squad has confirmed an unchanged four-car line up for this season. Sutton was a 12-time race winner in the team’s

Tom Ingram says background work by the Excelr8 Motorsport team will give him the chance to bridge the gap to the reigning British Touring Car champion Ash Sutton in 2024. The 2022 champion was in the title climax with Sutton last term. Thirty-year-ol

Two-time Formula 1 title winner Fernando Alonso has slammed grand prix testing regulations as unfair. There has been an reduction in preseason running in recent seasons and squads will only get three days of running at Bahrain ahead of the opening gr

Superstar Phil Keen will return to British GT full-time this year driving alongside 2022 champion Ian Loggie in reigning title-holder team 2 Seas’ two-Mercedes GT3 attack. Keen, who jointly holds British GT’s all-time overall race win record with Jo

Optimum Motorsport will continue in British GT this year with its GT3 and GT4 McLaren double attack though with tweaked driver crews as Tom Gamble and Zac Meakin join. Am driver Mark Radcliffe continues in the GT3 720S, though this year will be par

Girls on Track UK has developed the curriculum for a new Race into STEM programme, a global initiative aimed at inspiring young women to pursue careers in motorsport technical roles. The website – raceintostem.com – provides motorsport-related STEM

Elfyn Evans became the first big beneficiary of the World championship’s new-for-2024 points system when he outscored Rally Sweden winner Esapekka Lappi. Lappi won the winter event for Hyundai but managed a total of 19 points – 18 for leading after

David Henderson is gunning for a third consecutive East Riding Stages Rally victory but is aware that he will face a stern challenge on Sunday’s rally. Last year’s Scottish Rally champion Henderson has won both previous editions of the Beverley-base

Jerseyman Sam Touzel will chase this year’s Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship in a Ford Fiesta Rally2 as he competes outside the Channel Islands for the first time. Touzel has rallied on Jersey for six seasons, first in a Citroen Saxo and then a For

Ford Fiesta Rally3 driver Johnnie Mulholland won’t contest this year’s British Rally Championship after deciding to compete at home in Ireland instead. Mulholland has regularly contested the British championship since 2018, winning the Academy series

Chris West plans to contest the Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship this season in his stunning Peugeot 306 Maxi after a three-year sabbatical from rallying. West and co-driver Keith Hounslow will be among the very fastest two-wheel-drive crews and W

Irish rally icon Austin MacHale was one of three drivers each fined £850 during the recent Galway International Rally. Another person, who wasn’t competing in the rally, was also fined and had his licence suspended for 90 days. A verbal reprimand was

George Lepley scored a landmark victory on the recent Riponian Stages Rally by becoming the first driver to win a round of the British Historic Rally Championship in a four-wheel-drive car from Category 4. Although Category 4 cars, from up to 1990,

Nico Rosberg’s reigning Extreme E championship-winning team got its title defence off to a perfect start in the opening round of the 2024 series with victory at the Desert X-Prix in Saudi Arabia last weekend. Swedish duo Johan Kristoffersson and Mik

Being able to work in the area of your passion is a genuine privilege. It’s therefore little wonder that many of those with motorsport passion aspire to work in the sport they love. These roles range from being a member of a team, to volunteering an

Naturally, when following motorsport, those behind the wheel get most of our attention. And this has been the case in previous editions of Motorsport News’s special annual Getting Started in Motorsport supplement. Most of their focus, though by no m

The highest profile championship within UK motorsport is undoubtedly the British Touring Car Championship and it is an arena that many drivers aspire to be part of. There is that same desire among team owners and crew members. The level of detail an

It has long been said that British marshals are the best in the world and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that moniker remains as true now as it did when it was coined more than 50 years ago. No motorsport event of any type can run without mar

For those who prefer rallying to racing or speed events, the UK has a very busy schedule of rallies ranging from full-on forest events to closed-road special stage rallies to classic road rallies and Targa rallies. There is a job for everyone and rol

Although marshalling at race meetings is the most visible branch of marshalling activity, there are plenty of other ways to be involved and hillclimbing is a marshalling discipline all of its own. With a busy calendar across much of the country, ther

As a motorsport journalist, it’s possibly the question you are asked more than any other. “How do you become a motorsport journalist?” And it’s not easy to answer. But it’s understandable why we’re asked. As if you have a job you enjoy, you will nev

Rallying stands almost alone among its peers. It is one of the few disciplines of motorsport that allows two people to compete in a car together. That, theoretically, doubles anyone’s chances of being able to compete on a rally, as there are two rol

Colin McRae, Richard Burns, Petter Solberg, Craig Breen, Andreas Mikkelsen, Alister McRae, Nasser Al-Attiyah, David Higgins, Mark Higgins, Martin Rowe, Niall McShea, Andrew Nesbitt… the list genuinely does not stop. And it’s not just rally drivers: t

Esapekka Lappi admitted afterwards that he didn’t think he’d win again in the World Rally Championship. But having waited six years, six months and 19 days, the Finn’s victory drought is at an end. While his lowly road position, plus Toyota returnee

With nine stages run, Takamoto Katsuta was in the ascendency on Rally Sweden. He’d slashed Esapekka Lappi’s lead to 0.9 seconds and was intent on taking top spot. But it all went wrong on SS10 when the Japanese driver lost a seemingly certain podium

British co-drivers came to the fore in WRC2 on the second round of the season. While Elliott Edmondson partnered Oliver Solberg to the category win in fifth overall, James Morgan guided Georg Linnamae to their maiden WRC2 podium in third place – and

While the days of opulent Formula 1 launches might now be a thing of the past, there was still a certain amount of fanfare surrounding the launch of grand prix racing’s hardware for 2024. There is still room for a thumping soundtrack and a rapid pull

Mike English and Andy Robinson recorded their first rally win after bringing their Ford Fiesta Rally2 to the finish a single second clear of the Fiesta R5 of John Cope and Simon Hunter. James Ford and Pete Rigby looked assured of victory until their

Running from Friday to Sunday the 2024 edition of Race Retro, the 20th in the story of the exhibition, promises to continue rebuilding the show in the post-Covid era and an expanded event across four halls will offer more for visitors after the slimm