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Max Verstappen appears to have formally shut the door on leaving the Red Bull Formula 1 team for next year, while talks over who fills the second seat at its RB sister squad are looming. Amid a rift between Verstappen’s father Jos and trusted advisor

Hyundai looks on course to become the next manufacturer to sign up to compete at the highest level of sportscar racing on the world stage and in North America. The South Korean marque is either close to or has already given the green light to a progr

It didn’t take very long for good friends Max Verstappen and Lando Norris to fall out now that McLaren has established itself as a genuine threat to Red Bull. Norris always said that he’d fight Verstappen hard if the situation demanded it, and that’s

Meyer Shank Racing will return to the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s GTP class next season to run a two-car GTP Acura assault. The move comes after its contract wasn’t renewed for 2024 in the wake of its manipulation of tyre pressure data on the way t

Ex-IndyCar and DTM star Robert Wickens drove a single-seater last Friday for the first time since the 2018 Pocono crash that left him paralysed, when he completed 11 laps at Portland in a Formula E car prior to the Oregon circuit’s race weekend. Wick

Audi has offered a first proper update of the progress it is making with its new Formula 1 engine for 2026, saying it is already covering race distances in dyno tests. The German manufacturer is gearing up for a works entry in 2026, when it will offi

French tin-top racing legend Laurent Aiello was reunited with the RML Nissan Primera in which he won the 1999 British Touring Car title at Brands Hatch’s Super Touring Power event last weekend. He also signed a Tamiya model of the Peugeot 406 ST he u

Esteban Ocon and Valtteri Bottas have moved back into the frame for a seat at Williams in 2025 as Carlos Sainz continues to stall over his plans. The Spaniard has been weighing up for weeks clear offers from both the Sauber/Audi team and Williams for

A date for Sebastien Ogier’s return to the World Rally Championship was yet to be confirmed as we went to press, after he was ruled out of last weekend’s Rally Poland following a road traffic accident in the lead-up to the event. The eight-time world

The Suzuka 1000Km sportscar fixture will be revived next year after an absence of eight years. The Intercontinental GT Challenge will return to the home of the Japanese Grand Prix, not as a 10-hour race as in 2018 and 2019 (pictured), but running to

British youngsters Tom Lebbon and Josh Rattican extended their lead in the GT4 European Series by winning both Spa 24 Hours support races last weekend. The Elite Motorsport pair hadn’t yet taken a victory in 2024 before last Friday’s opener, for whic

Briton Toby Sowery will make his IndyCar debut at Mid-Ohio this weekend, when he becomes the sixth driver to pilot Dale Coyne Racing’s #51 entry this year. The 28-year-old made his name in the US as an Indy Lights race winner, and got his first taste

Pierre Gasly and Lance Stroll are the latest Formula 1 drivers to commit their futures, with both drivers staying put at their current teams. Gasly has signed a multi-year contract extension to remain with Alpine, which gives the Enstone squad some c

A new series was formally launched last Thursday aboard a ship upon the River Thames in London – as you do! Extreme H, the hydrogen replacement for Extreme E from 2025, got the green light aboard the St Helena, the vessel on which the entire ‘race wi

Ferrari is eyeing a performance upgrade of its Le Mans 24 Hours-winning 499P that could come on stream before the end of this year’s World Endurance Championship. The first evo joker to be invoked by the Italian manufacturer on its Le Mans Hypercar i

Lamborghini and its factory Iron Lynx team might not run a full schedule of IMSA SportsCar Championship events next season with the new SC63 LMDh. There has been no decision on whether to expand the North American programme from the endurance events

What’s stopped a Silverstone sell-out? It’s been reported that Toto Wolff thinks “it’s a shame” tickets for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone haven’t sold out, but Max Verstappen is not to blame, adding that “we need to look at what can be done b

If there was any indication of how much qualifying at the Red Bull Ring had evolved into a Max Verstappen benefit concert, it’s this: the Dutch driver completed four laps – two in Q2, two in Q3 – good enough for pole position. Even setting two laps i

A Hans Zimmer score and a cinematic masterpiece are often intertwined among some of the most venerated productions in the world of film. The highly revered composer has lent a sprinkling of gold dust to each, enveloping them in a sheen of electronic

Self-flagellation from Lando Norris is never in short supply. As the gap between Red Bull and McLaren erodes ever further in the battle for victories, Norris has been his harshest critic in his pursuit of perfection: a state he believes is the only w

Compared to some of the glorified car parks in which Formula 1 finds itself over the course of a season, the Red Bull Ring is a lovely change of scene. Pick your spot somewhere among the verdancy and you can pretty much see the entire circuit, compac

Haas scored its first double points finish since the Australian Grand Prix in March, with Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen finishing sixth and eighth respectively in the Austrian GP, either side of Sergio Perez’s Red Bull. After Magnussen had show

Charles Leclerc declared himself “very happy the race is finished” after his damage-filled run to 11th in Austria capped a disastrous weekend for the Ferrari driver. While team-mate Carlos Sainz had a smoother run, the 2022 Red Bull Ring winner endur

Ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix, small gravel traps were installed at the Red Bull Ring’s final two corners – the scene of problems that amounted to 1200 potential track limits violations in the 2023 main race at the venue. The kerbs at these corner

Pierre Gasly scored the final point in the Austrian GP for Alpine, after prevailing in another brutal scrap with his team-mate Esteban Ocon in the middle phase of the race. Ocon started as the lead Alpine driver after impressively making Q3, then bat

Age 24 Silverstone GP starts 6 Best Silverstone GP finish 2nd 2024 championship pos 2nd (156 points) You can still hear the roar; so many voices screaming in unison. McLaren’s Lando Norris had just taken the lead of the 2023 British Grand Prix and th

Age 26 Silverstone GP starts 6 Best Silverstone GP finish 5th 2024 championship pos 7th (111 points) If Lewis Hamilton has struggled to get the best out of the Mercedes W15, even in its slightly less rapid early form, then George Russell has managed

Age 39 Silverstone GP starts 18 Silverstone GP wins 8 2024 championship pos 8th (85 points) It’s hard to describe Lewis Hamilton’s start to 2024, although ‘inauspicious’ might cover it best. With a highest finish of sixth after the first eight races

Length 3.660 miles Number of laps 52 Friday 5 July FP1 1230 FP2 1600 Saturday 6 July FP3 1130 QUALIFYING 1500 Sunday 7 July RACE 1500 CHANNEL 4 SKY SPORTS F1 BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Max Verstappen 1m26.720s Lewis Hamilton 1m24.303s (2020) Max Verstappen 1m2

Sami Pajari outlined why Toyota will hand him an opportunity in a GR Yaris Rally1 car in Finland in August by claiming a dominant victory to boost his WRC2 title hopes. The Finn and co-driver Enni Malkonen backed up a triumph in Sardinia with an impr

Three years ago Alessandro Pier Guidi sealed a dramatic Spa 24 Hours victory with 10 minutes to go with an around-the-outside manoeuvre at Blanchimont. This time the Italian’s heroics had long since set Ferrari on course for the win in the blue-riban

Mercedes, a two-time winner of the Spa enduro in the GT3 era and always a consistent frontrunner, could finish no better than seventh with the GetSpeed team’s #777 entry that took Gold Cup class honours with Mikael Grenier, Philip Ellis, Dominik Baum

ROUND 6/10 Luke Browning regained the lead of the Formula 3 standings thanks to a superb second win of the season in the feature race at the Austrian Grand Prix round. While Hitech GP’s Williams F1 junior has been superb in the Sunday races, it’s his

ROUND 7/14 Just when it looked as though Ollie Bearman had kickstarted his Formula 2 campaign with victory in the reversed-grid sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix, the latest disaster struck in the feature event on Sunday. Instead, it was reignin

ROUND 19/36 What looked like a battle of tyre strategies last Sunday at Nashville Superspeedway turned into a wild race into who could stretch their fuel to the finish, with Joey Logano emerging the surprise winner. It appeared that Denny Hamlin, who

ROUND 3/8 In a reversal of what was to come later, the Austrian Grand Prix’s Porsche Supercup support race featured a consummate drive to victory from the series’ Dutch talisman as wars broke out behind him. Larry ten Voorde had to give best to CLRT

ROUND 8/20 Perfection is a near-unattainable concept that athletes constantly strive for throughout their careers. And Francesco Bagnaia’s Dutch Grand Prix masterclass is about as close to it as anyone could hope for. After topping both Friday practi

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The opening British GT Championship round will move from Oulton Park to Donington Park next year in a bid to avoid the chaos that marred this year’s Easter Monday curtain-raiser. The Donington event, a two-hour race, will take place on 6 April, two w

Gary Ward was reunited with the Formula Ford Lola T644E he raced with SDC sponsorship 40 years ago when he tackled the inaugural Heroes of FF1600 Sprint Cup races at Thruxton last month. “When owner Andrew Crighton researched chassis 23’s history and

Historic racing brothers Jon and Rob Payne are targeting a track return for their ex-Alain Menu 1992 BMW 318is. The Prodrive-built car made its first UK public appearance since 1993 when it was displayed at Brands Hatch’s Super Touring Power event la

Former British Touring Car stars John Cleland and Patrick Watts are planning to race at the Super Touring Power event in 2025. Ex-Mazda and Peugeot works driver Watts and 1995 champion Cleland attended the second running of the tin-top celebration at

Jess Edgar has become the second F1 Academy driver to reveal plans to join the British Formula 4 grid with Chris Dittmann Racing for the British series’ maiden overseas event at Zandvoort next weekend. After Carrie Schreiner joined the squad for last

The British Drag Racing Championship’s six-round Pro Modified series reached its halfway point at Santa Pod Raceway’s Summer Nationals last weekend. The early-season points leader, Estonia’s Andres Arnover, had decamped to the continent to pursue the

Rookie talent Ethan Jeff-Hall has moved into the Ginetta Junior points lead after scoring three wins during Ginetta’s G Fest event at Anglesey last weekend. On the category’s first visit to the Welsh circuit in 17 years, Jeff-Hall set the tone in rac

A new driver development academy is being launched by Buckmore Park kart circuit as part of commemorations of 60 years since its former owner John Surtees won the Formula 1 title. It is intended that the scheme will help uncover a future champion, an

The Citroen C1 24 Hours will return to Silverstone next year after this season’s planned Anglesey event was cancelled. A lack of entries led to the C1 Racing Club and British Racing & Sports Car Club axing the Welsh event, but the contest will now re

With 1999 British Touring Car champion Laurent Aiello watching on, Jake Hill took the Frenchman’s title-winning Nissan Primera to a pair of Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit wins at the second edition of Super Touring Power last weekend. The current BT

Super Touring in the 1990s may be among the most fondly remembered eras of British Touring Cars, but there are many fans of the Group A period that preceded it, too. Alongside the Classic Touring Car Racing Club’s Pre-’93 category, a field of Group A

John Davison made up for the disappointment of dropping out of the Snetterton Classic’s RAC Pall Mall Cup enduro on the fourth lap with a commanding win in the following day’s Historic Racing Drivers Club Allstars race. Davison’s TVR Griffith was fit

John Davison (TVR Griffith) Jake Giddings/Paul Streather (Ford Lotus Cortina, below) Andrew Guy Smith (Cooper Monaco) Jack Moody (Rover SD1) Jonathan Bailey (Bugatti T35C) Jeremy Cottingham/Harvey Stanley (Shelby Daytona Cobra) Matt Walton/Nigel Gree

Through the 1920s, Basil Davenport terrorised bigger and more expensive cars in his GN Spider special and, 100 years later, current owner Jim Edwards is continuing that tradition. Having accepted the challenge of rebuilding Spider’s Frazer Nash V-twi

In the latest of James Allen’s JA on F1 Podcast series, 1996 Formula 1 world champion Damon Hill talks about the two drivers most likely to become Britain’s next title winner: Lando Norris and George Russell. Hill explains how getting that breakthrou

F1 World Championship Round 12/24 Silverstone, UK 7 July Round 8/14 Silverstone, UK 6-7 July Round 7/10 Silverstone, UK 6-7 July Round 4/8 Silverstone, UK 7 July Round 9/15 Mid-Ohio, USA 7 July Round 7/12 Mid-Ohio, USA 7 July Round 3/6 Imola, Italy 7

Fellow Scots Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark enjoy a moment of camaraderie on the Silverstone grid ahead of the start of the 1967 British Grand Prix, round six of 11. Polesitter Clark, who qualified 0.7 seconds ahead of Lotus team-mate Graham Hill, led

Williams driver Juan Pablo Montoya had already pulled off an impressive overtaking manoeuvre at Spa’s Bus Stop chicane on the Ferrari of Michael Schumacher during the thrilling, incident-packed 2004 Belgian Grand Prix – a move he had initially not ev

It takes something truly special for long-time Porsche factory ace Marc Lieb to overlook the 911 GT3-RSR as his favourite car. He now co-owns the ex-GruppeM chassis in which he and Mike Rockenfeller dominated the FIA GT Championship’s GT2 class in 20

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