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While Max Verstappen and Red Bull might not have been beaten in a straight fight in Australia, Ferrari’s pace in Melbourne was very encouraging indeed. After all, Carlos Sainz won after starting on the front row and even put an on-track pass on the F

Two weeks after his appendectomy, Carlos Sainz delivered a brilliant performance in Melbourne to record his third grand prix victory and to underline his credentials for a Formula 1 lifeline next year. It was an impressive display of gritted determin

Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff has backed his Mercedes team to turn its poor early-season form around after a nadir in Melbourne when neither Lewis Hamilton or George Russell made it to the end. Russell was on course for seventh place before he cras

Zak Brown will continue at the helm of the McLaren F1 team in a busy week for the manufacturer, which has been taken over by a sovereign wealth fund from Bahrain. Brown’s signature comes hot on the heels of Lando Norris committing his future to the W

Four-time Formula 1 World champion Sebastian Vettel has joined the factory Porsche World Endurance Championship team at a pre-Le Mans test in Portugal this week, but is remaining tight-lipped on his racing plans. The German, who quit F1 at the end of

Alex Berg, the 17-year-old son of former Formula 1 racer and longtime racing school boss Allen, will race in British Formula 4 this season with Fortec Motorsports. Berg Jr has raced competitively in the F4 US championship for the past two seasons. H

Castle Combe will host its 500th race meeting on Monday at its season-opening Howard’s Day where the 500 Owners Association will be a special guest alongside the regular contests. 500OA is not only appropriate from its name, as the motorcycle-engined

Alex Walker is adding a Castle Combe Formula Ford programme this year to his freshman campaign in British GT. It will be Walker’s first FF1600 racing since losing 2021’s National title controversially in the finale after leading the standings for muc

The World Rally Championship resumes in Kenya today (Thursday) with Ireland’s chances of a 2025 calendar slot still uncertain. Bosses of the proposed Irish event are trying to secure €15 million from their government to land a three-year deal for wh

Elfyn Evans will hunt down Thierry Neuville for the lead of the World Rally Championship in Kenya this week armed with a tweaked Toyota GR Yaris Rally1. Brit Evans is three points behind his Hyundaidriving rival after two events this season. He start

The organisers of the Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages have been overwhelmed with entries and have now taken 210 applications for 170 spaces on the April 13 rally. It is thought to be the biggest entry for a one-day forest rally for many years. The ra

Northern Irishman Vivian Hamill is likely to contest the full Protyre BTRDA Rally Series this season after a fine second place overall on the Malcolm Wilson Rally. Hamill and co-driver Lorcan Moore took their VW Polo GTi R5 to a fine result on the op

Michael Igoe and Will Atkins will aim to complete a perfect season in the Circuit Rally Championship by adding another victory to their tally at Cadwell Park on Easter Sunday. Igoe and Atkins are already confirmed as 2023-24 champions in the Motorspo

A field of 12 Rally4 cars have committed to the new Stellantis Motorsport Rally Cup, including some of the best young drivers from either side of the Irish Sea. The youngsters are chasing a prize fund of around £40,000 towards the 2025 Junior Europe

Drivers from the Historic Formula 3 movement marked a special anniversary at Mallory Park last week: the 60th anniversary of the first one-litre Formula 3 race. The inaugural race was run at Mallory Park on March 8, 1964, and 60 years on the HF3 cont

Chris Ingram and Alex Kihurani delivered a master class in tough conditions to claim the spoils on the North West Stages. On his local rally, Ingram fired his VW Polo GTi R5 into a first-stage lead and stayed there to get his Probite British Rally C

It almost seemed impossible when Dave Coyne removed his crash helmet and emerged from the cockpit of his racer for the day. His chosen machine was usually a Formula Ford car, and Coyne wouldn’t look the same as all the waif-like teens climbing out of

Things have changed in British GT for 2024, but with it things have stayed the same. Reigning champions Darren Leung and Dan Harper have moved to European and – in Leung’s case – World Endurance Championship pastures new. And their chief 2023 title

Based out in rural Ceredigion, Melvyn Evans has been around rallying for the better part of four decades. His company has an enviable reputation that dates back to road rallying in the 1980s and then through stage rallying with Subaru World Rally Car

Timely pitstops set up salt magnate Steve Osborne’s Swinging Sixties and Classic K double victory at a packed Classic Sports Car Club season-opener; his gold Jaguar E-type chased by the Lotus Elans of Ben Snee/ Nigel Greensall and Paul Tooms respecti

Of Colin McRae’s 25 World Rally Championship wins, how many do you reckon weren’t claimed on fast, committed rallies that so perfectly suited his legendary flat-out driving style? One? Maybe two? Try 10 – or in other words, just under half. For the

My preparations for my debut GB4 season, starting this weekend at Oulton Park, are going really well. After two years in Ginetta Junior I’m making the transition into single-seaters, and it’s around 30 seconds a lap quicker in a single-seater, so it’

Rob Cull and Andrew Wenman were among the stars of the Equipe Classic Racing season opener at Brands Hatch after sharing the Equipe GTS race wins. Cull was never headed in the first contest as he steered his TVR Grantura MK III to a dominant win ahe