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Adrian Newey has said that he has no immediate plans for his future after Red Bull Racing departure was confirmed last week. The 65-year-old has quit the team after a tumultuous few months for the title-winning squad. Team principal Christian Horner

McLaren boss Zak Brown says that Adrian Newey will not be the only departure from Red Bull Racing amid turbulent times at the squad. Newey has left following a troubled start to 2024 off the track and Brown, who has not ruled out a swoop for the desi

Grand prix team bosses and rulemakers will have further discussions on a revamped points scoring system in Formula 1 after positive initial talks. Initially, the reworked system was due to expand the current system of 10 scorers to 12. However, some

Young British racer Taylor Barnard will continue in the McLaren Formula E team in Germany this weekend as regular racer Sam Bird is recovering from a broken bone in his hand. Bird hurt himself in practice at Monaco in a crash and Formula 2 driver Bar

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has moved to quash talks of protege Andrea Kimi Antonelli jumping into Lewis Hamilton’s cockpit in 2025. The 17-year-old Italian is racing in Formula 2 this season but has been mentioned in relation to a grand prix seat in th

British Formula 4 bosses still intend to add Silverstone GP and an overseas round to its 2025 schedule even though they were absent from its provisional calendar unveiled last week. The junior single-seater contest primarily races on the British Tou

Member of Max Verstappen’s esports team Chris Lulham made a dominant real-life racing return at Donington Park 10 days ago with double victory in Radical Cup UK’s season opener. The 21-year-old said: “After karting I did the final [British] F4 meetin

C1 Racing Club’s owner has said this weekend’s planned Anglesey 24-hour race was cancelled as low entries meant proceeding risked his own bankruptcy. Robin Welsh in a Facebook Q&A last week said: “Not enough entries, and if it went ahead it would hav

British GT frontrunners Kevin Tse and Maxi Goetz were denied a flying start to this year’s championship as a team error lost them an Oulton Park season opener front-row slot. Tse in his 2 Seas Mercedes set the second-best time in Oulton’s race-one qu

Television star Richard Hammond raced an MG B GT, the last car he drove on Top Gear, in the Classic Sports Car Club’s Swinging Sixties race 10 days ago. He drove the MG B GT as a road car in his final broadcast Top Gear episode, wherein the presente

Reigning British GT champion Darren Leung would “love to do another round” in British GT this year after a pitstop error denied him victory in his one-off Silverstone 500 return. Leung won last year’s overall drivers’ title in a Century BMW M4 GT3 al

Ferrari’s long-awaited return to British GT racing could happen later this year after Sky Tempesta Racing’s 296 GT3 could not compete at Silverstone due to a practice crash. Rear subframe damage sustained when Alexander West left the track at Aintree

Toyota team chief Jari-Matti Latvala has told Elfyn Evans to keep his focus firmly fixed on Thierry Neuville during Rally of Portugal this week. Starting today (Thursday), round five of the World championship season is a chance for the Welshman to c

M-Sport’s hopes of getting its Fiesta Rally2 to the top in WRC2 have been boosted with confirmation that Pepe Lopez will switch to Ford power for the upcoming gravel rounds in Portugal and Sardinia. Runner-up in WRC2 on the Monte Carlo Rally and thir

The organisers of the Plains Rally have announced that the 2024 event has been cancelled due to lack of entries. Knutsford and District Motor Club faced a £30,000 loss had they gone ahead with the May 18 event with the 70 entries so far pledged. The

Six-time Scottish and 2011 British champion David Bogie described the Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 he drove to victory on the recent Speyside Stages as the best R5 or Rally2 car he’s ever driven. Bogie had been out of a R5 or Rally2 car for 18 months befor

A significantly revised route with new stages will feature on this year’s Hills Ford Stages on September 14-15. Formerly the Three Shires Stages, the reworked event will still be based around the town of Ledbury in Herefordshire where there will be a

WRC2 driver Josh McErlean will realise a long-held ambition when he contests the Tour of the Sperrins Rally on Saturday, May 18, his first event in Ireland with a Rally2 car. Since becoming Junior British Rally champion in 2019, the 24-year-old has r

A total competitive mileage of between 55 and 60 stage miles, along with reduced road mileage are the core plans for this year’s Cambrian Rally at the end of October. The organisers from North Wales Car Club are planning the most compact route in rec

David Ross brought his popular DAM 4100 GTI Metro out for the first time in five years for the Speyside Stages and is planning a Mull Rally entry later this year. Ross submerged the car in a lake on the 2019 Border Counties Rally but brought it back

Owain Rowlands and Iwan Jones won the Rali Goffa Dilwyn Jones having led for most of the day, however they were never more than a few seconds ahead of the field. The 2023 winners, Iwan Roberts and Moi Williams, had just deprived Rowlands/ Jones of th

Mark Higgins hopes to be a serious contender for historic glory on this weekend’s Manx Rally, rounds four and five of the British Historic Rally Championship. Manx-born Higgins will drive the Triumph TR7 V8 from David Appleby Engineering on its firs

Two new venues and a service park in Telford are the early details for this year’s Historic Rally Festival, which will run over the weekend of October 5-6. The Apley and Willey Estates in the Ironbridge area of Shropshire will both host the event for

Motor Racing Legends, one of the UK’s leading historic race prime movers, has been sold to Aythorpe Promotions Limited, a company owned by historic racer Shaun Lynn. Aythorpe has acquired all of the race series run by MRL as well as the Donington His

The Return of the sensational early 1950s BRM V16 Grand Prix car will be one of the highlights of this year’s Prescott Historique. Now running over two full days, May 25-26, the Prescott event will feature 150 cars in competition each day on the famo

After the opening round two rounds of the HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship, the early points leaders are Ian Cramond and Matthew Vokes in their Mercedes 280SL. Strong results in Cheshire and Kent have put them clear of John King in his Toyota MR2 and

The Group A Rover SD1 that took Ken Wood to the 1984 Scottish Rally Championship will be offered for auction at Sywell Aerodrome on May 18 during Supercar Fest. One of the early competition SD1s built by Austin Rover, the 1982 car was driven by Tony

Sunday’s two well-attended BriSCA Formula 2 meetings brought victories for Aidan Grindey at Skegness and Sam Weston at St Day. Grindey only qualified for the final in Lincolnshire via the consolation race, which he won. But as white-graded Josh Hamst

The 2021 European Rallycross champion in the RX3 division, Yury Belevskiy will embark on a full campaign in the series’ headline RX1 (Supercar) division this season. Belevskiy has raced in various rallycross series since stepping up to an RX1 machine

Austrian Hans-Peter Fureder will drive a Lancia Delta S4 at the Lydden Legend Festival on July 21-22 as part of the Rallycross Group B category in the new event. The Delta S4 entered the world stage in the World Rally Championship’s Group B era, winn

On an event new to him and on a surface on which Rally Islas Canarias marked his fifth appearance, Max McRae knew this was a battle there was no point trying to win. Ahead of the Junior ERC championship fight after his breakthrough victory on the Hun

Aidan Hills was a double winner on the Brands Hatch supporting programme, dominating both Miata Trophy Mazda MX-5 races. Just short of 30 of the Japanese cars took to the long circuit, but on a weekend with some packed grids they were among the small

Henry Chart was one of the stars of Silverstone when he twice charged from the back of the grid in two very different cars. Qualifying was a disaster for Chart when his Formula 5000 Trojan T101 developed an oil leak and then his Classic Formula Ford

Welsh ace Ioan Lloyd (Peugeot 208 Rally4) won the Rally4 class, netted top points in the Stellantis Cup and finished an impressive 13th overall. He led though the opening pair of stages but the chasing pack of Cian Caldwell (Peugeot 208 Rally4), Ryan

Malcolm Jones and Rhys Jones completed back-to-back wins on the Dixies Challenge when they powered their Darrian T90 GTR to a commanding victory over the Epynt ranges on Sunday to back up their 2023 victory. Jones took control of the event on the op

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