Neil Hose, once a young lion in Formula Vauxhall Junior, will return to single-seaters this season to contest the Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship in a Merlyn Mk20A. The Glasgow-based driver has competed more recently in Mini Coopers at his ho

Hyundai Motorsport will pay tribute to Craig Breen during this week’s Croatia Rally with a fundraising auction and a tweaked car livery design. Breen died during an accident while testing for the Zagreb event on April 13 last year. He was 33. To mar

All of the historic rally class winners delivered impressive performances across a long day on some truly challenging stages. After earlier stoppages, it was well into the evening before some of the later runners got to tackle the concluding 13-miler

Bosses of Honda, which will provide engines for Aston Martin in grand prix racing from 2026, have said that they are relishing working with Fernando Alonso again despite a rocky history. When Alonso drove a Honda-powered McLaren from 2015 through to

Rally car preparer and renowned driver Neil Weaver stepped up to a Ford Fiesta Rally2 for the recent Lookout Stages at Melbourne in Yorkshire. Weaver competed extensively two decades ago but in recent times has concentrated on preparing cars for othe

The Jody Scheckter Collection of racing cars from the career of the 1979 Formula 1 World champion will go for auction during the Monaco Historic Grand Prix on May 10-11. After retiring from the sport in 1980, South African Scheckter acquired 11 racin

Major works have taken place at the Shanghai circuit ahead of this weekend’s return of the Chinese Grand Prix to eliminate bumps from the surface. The 3.3-mile layout has not been used for Formula 1 since 2019 and the grand prix machines have undergo

Jamie Chadwick held a special race school karting event in Milton Keynes for 44 girls last week as a result of high demand for her new grassroots all-female karting championship. In February the Indy NXT racer and three-time W Series champion launch

Double World champion Fernando Alonso has signed a deal to remain with the Aston Martin Formula 1 team for two years beyond the end of his current contract. It means the Spaniard, the 2005 and 2006 champion, will be in grand prix racing until he is

Last year’s Porsche Carrera Cup GB Pro-Am runner-up Ross Wylie is aiming to go one better this year after confirming his return switching to the Toro Verde GT team. Wylie, from Thornhill near Dumfries in Scotland, driving for Redline last year finish

Today (Thursday) we offer birthday wishes to Anthony Davidson, who reaches the age of 45. He was a consummate driver across multiple types of machinery, and is at least as consummate as a broadcaster. But concentrating on his first – and foremost – r

The founder of the Toleman Formula 1 team, Ted Toleman, passed away in the Philippines last week at the age of 84. The successful businessman had dabbled in racing himself in national series. His commercial activities gave him the ability to sponsor

A brave performance over six fast stages on the Kilkenny and Wexford borders gave Derek Mackarel (Ford Fiesta R5) and co-driver Darren Curran their maiden victory. They finished 20.6s ahead of Jordan and Paul Hone, who edged out Stephen McCann and J

The organising team of the Guernsey Rally have been given the go ahead to start planning an event for February 2025. The closed-road special stage rally run on the island was first organised in 2018. The 2021 edition was lost to Covid and the ’24 edi

Adding spice to the entry for the Speyside Stages will be young rallycross ace Patrick O’Donovan who will share his Hyundai i20 R5 with experienced co-driver Jack Morton. Donovan has only done three circuit rallies to date, winning on his debut at Ca

Class battles raised all the way down the field and among the closest was the 1600cc division where Paul Sheard and Colin Stevens battled to keep their Mazda MX-5 ahead of the Vauxhall Corsa of Kevin Davis and Sion Rowlands. Eventually, the former ci

Having rallied a venerable Mitsubishi Lancer E3 in the Circuit Rally Championship since 2018, former short oval racer Wayne Larbalestier had his first run in his Skoda Fabia recently at the Dukeries Rally at Donington Park. After a couple of early in

American driver Ellis Spiezia has signed for ZEROID Motorsport to race in the all-electric World Rallycross Championship RX2e support series. The 18-year-old, who has mostly driven in electric racing, moved to Europe in 2020 with his family to peruse