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Max Verstappen stepped from his race-winning Red Bull at Imola and raised his hands high into the air. The angle of his arms exactly mirrored those of the driver featured on the logo for iRacing, the online simulator game that is the platform of choi

The news that Thruxton’s land has been bought by a motorsport enthusiast should mean that fans can breathe a sigh of relief. Make no mistake, its prime site alongside the A303 makes it a developer’s delight. Those fears have been allayed and new own

British ace Lando Norris thinks that McLaren can expect to be in the hunt for race victories at every grand prix for the rest of the year. Norris, who took his maiden grand prix victory earlier in May, chased Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to the finish

Alex Albon has signed a new long-term deal to keep him at the Williams team through to at least the start of the fresh Formula 1 rules in 2026. Albon had a contract that expired at the end of 2025, but although there is no timeframe confirmed for the

Formula 1 bosses are considering ramping up driver penalties to avoid a repeat of Kevin Magnussen’s blocking tactics in the sprint race in Miami at the start of May. The Danish Haas driver was defending eighth place in the Florida event in a bid to a

The 2022 Jack Sears Trophy winner Bobby Thompson will return to the British Touring Car Championship grid for the remaining eight meetings of the season at the wheel of a WSR-run BMW. The 27-year-old has been a regular in the series since 2018 but ha

Briton Luke Browning bounced back from a non-finish in the sprint Formula 3 race at Imola last weekend to claim fourth spot in the feature race and maintain the pressure in the title chase. Browning ended up in the gravel at the Tosa hairpin in the l

Rowan Campbell-Pilling has insisted this season remains a learning year for him in British Formula 4 even though he qualified and finished third overall at Brands Hatch 10 days ago. The Sheffield teenager, in only his second meeting of single-seaters

Thruxton bosses have said that they could host more free-to-enter race meetings in the future after the success of the initiative at a 750 Motor Club event at the start of May. The British Automobile Racing Club-operated track trialled the system for

Kris Meeke would relish a shot in a Rally1 car and says he’s “committing as much as ever” in order to be ready for an opportunity should it ever arise. The five-time World championship event winner hasn’t competed at the sport’s top level since 2019

Jon Armstrong reckons finishing between World championship event winners Hayden Paddon and Mads Ostberg on Rally Islas Canarias earlier this month was his best showing so far at Rally2 level. The 29-year-old from Northern Ireland placed seventh on ro

Chris Ingram will bid to extend his early lead in the British Rally Championship when round three runs on this weekend’s Jim Clark Rally. The high-speed event on closed public roads in the Scottish Borders will be another highlight of a stellar BRC

James Williams and Ross Whittock will try to strengthen their early grip on the Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship by scoring their fourth maximum score on this weekend’s Jim Clark Rally. In their Hyundai i20 Rally2 Williams and Whittock have taken t

FIA Junior WRC Championship contender Eamonn Kelly was a surprise entrant for the recent Border Counties Rally in a Ford Fiesta Rally3. The Motorsport Ireland Academy driver used the Scottish Borders-based event as a gravel warm-up before the next J

The lead venue for October’s Historic Rally Festival has been unveiled as the Apley Estate near Bridgnorth in Shropshire. The Telford-based event will run over the weekend of October 5-6 with a significant amount of the demonstration stage mileage ru

Irish Tarmac Rally Championship star Andrew Nesbitt will return to competition for the next rounds of the British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy at Mondello Park this weekend. The two-time Irish Tarmac title-winner has experience of racing

Multiple World Rally Championship event-winner and former Peugeot, Ford and Mitsubishi driver Francois Delecour will star at the inaugural Lydden Legend Festival this July driving a Ford RS200. Delecour claimed four wins in a decorated rally career t

Michael Igoe and Will Atkins were the stars of the 2023-24 Circuit Rally Championship as the nine-round season played out across seven months and six venues. With sponsorship from MGJ Engineering and support from Motorsport News it was another stron

Last month’s Rallynuts Stages had never featured in the British Rally Championship before – even if plenty of the stages had. The season-opening North West Stages meanwhile was totally new. The succeeding Grampian, Ceredigion and Cambrian events all

Tapio Laukkanen’s is a name that just sounds fast. A class champion (twice) in his native Finland, an overall champion in Kenya as well as, most famously, in the British Rally Championship during its manufacturer pomp of the late 1990s, Tapio’s speed

Matt James speaks to Alex Thistlethwayte, the new landowner of the Hampshire speedbowl and finds out about his passion for the place Thruxton offers a unique challenge in British motorsport. It might be based around an airfield, which is not unusu

Thruxton is also a busy working airfield, and that is something that new owner Alex Thistlethwayte is keen to learn all about. While most of the other elements of the Hampshire venue have tenants, including the British Automobile Racing Club for the

Dubbed one of the unluckiest men in racing, Chris Amon was also one of the most gifted grand prix drivers never to win a World championship race. He is the focus of an iconic motorsport image from the 1960s. With the rear of his Ferrari at an angle,

There have only been a handful of occasions when the Formula 1 World Championship was decided on the very last lap of the season. Mexico City 1964, was one such time and its thrilling denouement rarely gets a mention today. Perhaps it needs a film ma

They may be outnumbered by the ‘budget’ S Class runners, but original Mini Se7ens remain ultra-competitive, with frontrunning trio Ross Billison, Joe Thompson and Damien Harrington mesmerising at Snetterton. A race-one duel between Billison and Thom

Olly Allen was the star of Mallory Park when he claimed a sensational victory in the second Blue Oval saloon contest. In the shortened opener, Piers Grange took his Ford Escort Mk2 to victory, while Allen ended his race against the barriers at the E

Josh McErlean enjoyed a winning return to home soil as he recorded a comfortable victory on the Tour of the Sperrins Rally, the penultimate round of the Northern Ireland Rally Championship. Aboard one of the last remaining ‘delivery miles’ Volkswage

The Cork crew of Daniel Cronin and Donnchadh Burke (VW Polo GTi R5) captured a maiden national rally championship event victory on an action-packed Carlow Rally. Taking the lead on the second stage, they went on to finish 3.9 seconds in front of the

My debut season in FIA Formula 3 has gone pretty well. There’s been a lot learnt and as a team at Rodin we’re making really good progress in closing the deficit to the front from the start of pre-season to where we were at last month’s Barcelona test

Tapio Laukkanen is our esteemed readers’ Q&A guest this week, and thanks to YouTube we can get a detailed recap of one of his thrilling rallies. On 2004’s Galway International Rally Laukkanen had a famous battle with Eugene Donnelly, both in WRC mach