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The FIA’s member clubs and sports federations have urged the body to take legal action against those who have recently accused president Mohammed Ben Sulayem of misconduct. The president was cleared by an internal inquiry after a whistleblower claime

Japanese Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen says he thinks his Red Bull team will have to work hard to match its glittering season in 2024 despite strolling to success at Suzuka on Sunday. The Dutchman powered from pole position to his third win of th

The Williams team will contest the Chinese round of the Formula 1 championship on April 21 without a spare chassis following yet more damage in an opening-lap shunt at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday. Following on from Alex Albon’s chassis-damaging

Sebastian Vettel says he might not be done with grand prix racing despite quitting Formula 1 two years ago. The 36-year-old German hung up his helmet after his final race with Aston Martin in Abu Dhabi in 2022, but has said that he has continue to mo

Championship battler Jake Hill topped a group of 19 British Touring Car Championship machines that took part in an official pre-season test at Brands Hatch last week. The Kent racer, who has finished third in the points for the last two campaigns, se

Motorsport News is sad to report the passing of former editor Michael Cotton, who passed away late last week. Cotton was a trained journalist who joined Motoring News in the 1960s and would file his reports under the initials MLC. He progressed throu

The latest United Formula Ford season kicks off on Saturday with seven nationalities among the around 20 entries competing for the Jim Walsh Trophy at Silverstone. While the James Beckett Motorsport and MotorSport Vision Racing-run United FF1600 has

PalmerSport Ginetta Shootout winner James Nicholas won in his first-ever car race at Oulton Park recently just three weeks after winning the drive in the driving experience organisation’s talent-spotting competition. Nicholas qualified second for the

The Civic Cup is set for bumper grids in its 2024 season that kicks off at Brands Hatch this weekend with 32 cars registered. The one-make contest, which this year features full time on TCR UK’s support package, had grids of just over 20 last year.

Prolific sportscar team Breakell Racing will make its British GT debut later this month at the showpiece Silverstone 500 with Harley Haughton and Carl Garnett sharing a Mercedes-AMG GT4. The James Breakell-run squad is set to contest a number of Brit

Teenage former British GT racer Seb Hopkins is switching to Porsche Sprint Challenge GB this season returning to Team Parker Racing. Hopkins raced a Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 with Parker in British GT aged 16 in 2022 – as one of the championship’s young

Irishman Jack Brennan has described his Junior ERC drive as a “dream come true”. The 19-year-old Billy Coleman Award winner is a late addition to the 17-car Junior ERC entry on this weekend’s Rally Hungary after he secured support from the Motorsport

Andreas Mikkelsen won’t be short of match practice when he makes his second World Rally Championship appearance of the season in Croatia next week. Mikkelsen is sharing Hyundai’s third factory i20 N Rally1 with Esapekka Lappi and Dani Sordo in 2024 a

Rising Scottish star Robert Proudlock hopes that the switch to gravel for round two of the Stellantis Cup on the Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages will give him the chance of a strong result. Proudlock has traded up to a Peugeot 208 Rally4 for this seas

Northern Irish teenager Kalum Graffin has taken the early lead in the Junior British Rally Championship after winning the category on the North West Stages. Graffin, who turned 17 last July, also played his joker to add further points in what was his

James Giddings will challenge for the Welsh Rally Championship this year after taking the 2023 season out following the birth of his daughter. Giddings returned on the recent Rally North Wales with his Mitsubishi Lancer E9 and was quickly back on the

After an 18-month break, David and Matthew Smalley secured their second Targa rally win, when they took victory on the Javalin’s Jumbo on Easter Sunday. The pair had been quickest on the opening test, but two fastest times in succession pushed Mark P

It was not until the final loop of three stages that Josh Moffett (Citroen C3 Rally2) finally got free of the clutches of his elder brother Sam (Hyundai i20 Rally2) to win their local Monaghan Rally. With less than two seconds between them for the p

Nick Elliott and Dave Price will seek to press home their early advantage in the British Historic Rally Championship during round three, Saturday’s Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages. Elliott’s Fiat 131 will be one of the favourites for maximum points on

The date for the 2024 edition of the Historic Rally Festival has been confirmed as October 5-6. The special stage demonstration event for period rally cars will once again be based in the Telford area, using nearby locations. There will be a festival

McLaren has been forced to reshuffle its backroom team as technical director David Sanchez has left the operation after only three months. The Frenchman joined the Woking team from Ferrari at the beginning of 2024, but has left as his duties were “no

The 40th anniversary of the Prodrive operation will be celebrated at this year’s Shelsley Walsh Classic Nostalgia event on July 20-21. Prodrive was founded in 1984 and has since created some of the most iconic race and rally cars. A range of Prodrive

Fourteen period rally cars from the UK will take part in this weekend’s Rallye Festival Hoznayo in northern Spain. Based on the town of Hoznayo, the popular demo event returns after a year’s sabbatical with an entry of 120 cars, including 14 from the

Pat Issitt won a well-attended BriSCA Formula 2 meeting at King’s Lynn, while Scotsmen Gordon Moodie and Steven Burgoyne topped their home nation’s World championship qualifying rounds. After two early stoppages in Norfolk, Issitt demoted David Steve

Ryan Harrison made his first appearance of the 2024 a memorable one. He had the perfect meeting winning his heat, final and, from a one-lap handicap, the Grand National at the end of the evening. The successes marked Harrison’s first clean sweep and

Six-time British Hillclimb champion Scott Moran has been honoured with membership of the British Racing Drivers’ Club. Moran, who stepped back from contesting the full BHC at the end of last season, is one of the first hillclimbers to gain membership

The future tyre supply for top-level hillclimbing has been assured by a new five-year strategic partnership between the British Hillclimb Championship and Nova Motorsport. Nova Motorsport has acquired the assets of Avon Motorsport from Cooper Tire an

The five events for the Tin Top Challenge, which runs alongside the British Hillclimb Championship, have been confirmed. The season will start at Harewood on July 7, and continue with rounds at Wiscombe Park, Shelsley Walsh, Prescott and Doune. The T

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While the World Rally Championship is going through a rocky patch just at the moment, its feeder series, the European championship, is thriving. The bumper entry for this weekend’s season opener in Hungary includes 28 Rally2 cars, there’s a crop of

There’s not just new European Rally Championship events in store in 2024 but several key rule changes. Rather than selecting their road order for leg one, the eligible drivers will start asphalt-based rounds according to the results of the Qualifying

British Formula 4’s 2023 runner-up Will Macintyre concluded his debut GB3 weekend by winning the sodden reversed-grid finale in Cheshire but only after dominant Arthur Rogeon hit late technical woe. Rodin racer Rogeon – who switched from Chris Dittma

Early contact with Elite Motorsport’s Harry Gamble didn’t derail W2R’s Mike Taylor from a win in the second Ginetta GT Academy race, having been 13th in race one. Fellow W2R racer Luke Shaw battled up to second with Gamble third, but Gamble bounced b

Dave Hodkin made an explosive start to his 2024 750 Formula campaign after missing most of 2023 with a blown engine in his HRD. Hodkin faced a fierce start from Bill Cowley’s Cowley Mk4, who jumped from fourth to first off the line. However, Hodkin

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