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Late during the rain-delayed race, Bristol Motor Speedway issued a news release and the track’s executive vice president and general manager, Jerry Caldwell, announced over the public address system that the track’s spring Cup weekend in 2022 would once again feature dirt racing. “There has been so much buzz and excitement around the inaugural Food

Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer says he only sees a return to the endurance classic as a ‘long-term’ goal despite Porsche’s planned LMDh assault from 2023. Last December, Porsche confirmed it would bid for a 20th outright Le Mans win with an as-yet-unnamed car built to the new LMDh regulations that will

After missing out on Q3 with the medium tyres, Perez was due to start 11th but triggered an aborted start when his RB16B shut off and coasted to a halt before the final corner. With no power, the Mexican couldn’t communicate with his team, but despite his relative unfamiliarity with the car and the Honda

Following the first time two consecutive editions of the Isle of Man TT have been cancelled since the Second World War, dates have been confirmed for the 2022 race. The 2020 event was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak in March, with this year’s planned event following suit late last year. But organisers are ploughing ahead

Despite dropping to sixth as a quartet of Ducatis rocketed to the front at the start of the 22-lap race, Vinales rallied to fight his way through to the front of the pack by the 15th tour. From there, he opened up a gap of over a second to come under no threat through to

Track limits played a pivotal role in the outcome of Formula 1’s entertaining 2021 season opener, as with four laps to go Red Bull’s Max Verstappen overtook erstwhile leader Lewis Hamilton at Turn 4 but had to hand the position back to the defending world champion after leaving the track. In qualifying track limit transgressions

The 15-time MotoGP race winner was ousted from his Ducati seat at the end of 2020 and has taken a sabbatical in 2021 having turned down a race seat offer from Aprilia. But, earlier this month, Aprilia announced it would undertake a three-day private test at Jerez on 12-14 April with Dovizioso riding the RS-GP.

The South African will start the opening round of the 2021 season from 19th on the grid as KTM’s struggles at the Losail circuit continue. KTM has been able to start the new year with a new engine, while the base of the bike is not too dissimilar to the RC16 which both Binder and

The ART Grand Prix driver initially finished second on the road behind race winner Oscar Piastri, although stewards had earlier issued a 10-second time penalty to Lundgaard for contact with Lirim Zendeli that ultimately ended his race. Lundgaard pulled up in the parc ferme to appear on the podium before the timing screen updated the

The third practice session of a MotoGP weekend often features a battle to get into the top 10 on combined times to secure a place in the pole shootout session in qualifying. But the baking hot conditions of the Saturday afternoon session in Qatar meant improvements on the combined order were non-existent. This was good

Hitech Grand Prix driver Vips has been removed from the qualifying results after FIA stewards determined that the undertray fins of car #8 were not in compliance with Article 4.3.13 of the F2 Technical Regulations. Vips, who had been fifth fastest in Saturday’s 30-minute qualifying session, will now start Saturday’s opening race and Sunday’s feature

The Suzuki rider admitted after pre-season testing that he started the season only “70%” ready having lost a vital day of work on the 2021 GSX-RR chassis to poor weather conditions (with Mir confirming on Friday he is using the 2020 frame). Mir began the day fifth fastest, but faded to outside of the Q2

Taking the place of Rally Chile – which has been cancelled due to COVID-related restrictions in the country – the classic gravel event will host round ten of the WRC from 9-12 September. Famed for its unforgiving rocks and high temperatures, the Acropolis was one of the first events to sign up to the WRC

The reigning IMSA SportsCar Championship title winner, who notched up his second Daytona victory in January, will partner full-season drivers Ben Hanley and Henrik Hedman in the DragonSpeed ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2 car at the Barcelona series opener on 18 April. The team will subsequently bring in a different star driver for each of the remaining

The current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s used in the IndyCar Series will be replaced in 2023 with 2.4-litre V6 units, still using twin turbos but also with a hybrid unit. To simulate the effects of the 100hp boost that IndyCar is striving for from the hybrid unit on ovals as well as road and street courses,

Rumours emerged earlier in the week on the run up to the opening round of the 2021 MotoGP season that Vinales’ Yamaha crew chief Esteban Garcia had tested positive for COVID-19. Vinales confirmed Garcia had an initial test which proved reactive – meaning the result didn’t count – but tested negative on Wednesday. Despite this,

The British team, co-owned by 2009 Formula 1 champion Jenson Button, announced back in December that it would field a McLaren 720S in the revamped DTM series this year, taking advantage of its switch to GT3 machinery. This was supposed to mark the next stage in the expansion of the outfit after it spent the

Juan Pablo Montoya, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso are regarded as one of F1’s greatest-ever rookie intakes, the trio each enjoying standout seasons with the Williams, Sauber and Minardi squads that would set them up for lengthy top-line careers. Montoya overtook Schumacher three times on track during the season and finally broke his duck in

Ferrari commenced work with the FIA last year on its new Girls On Track scheme to find female talent for the Ferrari Driver Academy. Maya Weug, 16, became the first woman to join the FDA after winning the initiative, and started work at Maranello earlier this year. Ferrari announced on Wednesday that following the success

The only British event on the GTWCE calendar, originally set for 2 May, was postponed earlier this month, with publication of a new date pending. It has now been set for 29 August, making it the fourth of the five weekends that make up the sprint segment of the series. The original postponement was made

The FIA Formula 3 graduate has been heavily linked to a promotion to the Dutch squad’s F2 programme, with an appearance at the pre-season test only serving to strengthen speculation. MP Motorsport has today confirmed via social media that Verschoor will indeed join the team for the F2 season opener, although Autosport/Motorsport.com understands the deal

Current WRC cars are petrol powered, with electrification being added into the mix next season. Under the new rules that come into effect from 2022 and last for an initial three-season spell, Rally1 cars will combine an internal combustion engine (ICE) and a 134bhp electric motor supplied by Compact Dynamics. The cars – which are

The reigning FIA Formula 3 champion is making the step up F2 this year with champion outfit Prema Racing and is among a group of young drivers expected to impress. Already a rising star in the junior ranks, Piastri was snapped up by the Renault Sport, now Alpine Academy, in 2020, resulting in a F1

Johnny Dumfries had impeccable credentials when he was signed up to be Ayrton Senna’s team-mate at Lotus for 1986. He was a British Formula 3 Champion, and a dominant one at that. He’d been test driver for Ferrari. And he’d raced in Formula 3000. That wasn’t the CV of a driver who was going to

The all-electric off-road SUV racing championship has already announced rights packages with Sky Sports, BT Sport and online BBC platforms. The headline partnership with Sky Sports is initially for one year only and placed Extreme E coverage behind a TV paywall subscription service, but now the first three seasons of the nascent electric series will

Larson took both stage victories and led a race-high 269 of 325 laps but a 56-lap run on the same set of tyres took them beyond their limits, opening the door to the rapidly chasing Blaney. With eight laps remaining and as Larson and Blaney both approached the lapped car of Joey Logano, Blaney dove

Like with the final Moto3 pre-season test, Moto2’s final three-days of running ahead of the season had to be moved to Qatar this weekend due to the COVID-19 pandemic having originally been scheduled to take place at Jerez in Spain. After the first day of running on Friday, Ajo KTM’s new signing Remy Gardner –

The blue, white and gold branding of Rothmans had become a motorsport staple of the 1980s and ’90s, having emblazoned Porsche’s 956 prototypes, the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Championship team and Honda’s 500cc grand prix bikes across the years. Then assuming title sponsorship of Williams’ Formula 1 team at its peak, it enjoyed four successful

The Ganassi car had exchanged the lead with the Daytona 24 Hours-winning Wayne Taylor Racing Acura for much of the opening phase of the race, following a controversial clash between van der Zande and the pole-sitting Action Express Racing Cadillac of Pipo Derani that cost the latter three laps of repairs. No further action was

The collision occurred just 45 minutes into the endurance classic when the two Cadillac DPi-V.R drivers were approaching GTD traffic on the run to the Turn 17 hairpin. Action Express Racing driver Derani, a three-time Sebring winner, had made a move to the inside of van der Zande just as the Dutchman’s Chip Ganassi Racing