Rally

Top Performer – Thierry Neuville Reaching the finish of the Safari Rally was an achievement in its own right, such was the challenge Kenya threw at the crews brave enough to tackle it. In the end only five WRC drivers completed the full distance such was the difficulty of the new shortened but just as

In particular, the straightline speed boost that has been witnessed since the arrival of Honda’s second power unit at the French GP has left Mercedes chasing answers about why it can no longer keep up. Red Bull has brushed off any talk that Honda’s newer power unit features any performance upgrades, which would not be

Any film that needed to cover ground as wide as Adolf Hitler being at his parents’ wedding, punch-ups at fascist rallies, Formula 1 controversies, the dishing out of $100 million fines and a News of the World sex orgy expose, couldn’t really be anything else. Yet Mosley: It’s Complicated, which is released in cinemas next month,

Porsche’s new recruit Wehrlein was the first to cross the line at the Mexican venue after a controlled display from pole position, leading the Audi of 2016-17 champion Lucas di Grassi. But shortly after the chequered flag was waved, both Porsches along with the Nissans of Sebastien Buemi and Oliver Rowland were excluded from the

The six-time world champion crashed in qualifying on Saturday and was forced to start from 20th on the grid for Sunday’s 26-lap Dutch TT. One of only three riders to go for the soft rear, Marquez had leaped up to 12th after the first lap and would go on to finish seventh, narrowly pipping Aprilia’s

Verstappen led every lap at the Red Bull Ring to score his fourth win of the year and record back-to-back victories for the first time in his F1 career. Verstappen crossed the line 35 seconds clear of title rival Lewis Hamilton in second place, having led by more than 17 seconds prior to Hamilton’s late

Morgan was a multiple race winner with Ciceley’s Mercedes A-Class, which was pensioned off after the end of last season, and made the most of being drawn on pole in the random reversed-grid draw. Second place was initially held by Jack Goff, who started Team Hard’s new-for-2021 Cupra Leon on the front row, after a

The rookie looks set to join team-mate Remy Gardner at Tech3 in MotoGP next year and brushed off his crash out of the German GP with an emphatic victory at Assen. Aron Canet grabbed the lead off the line on his Aspar Kalex, while Sam Lowes and Remy Gardner traded second spot at the Dulkersloot

The Acuras were a cut above its rivals, and it was Taylor who delivered a 1m30.022s lap around the 3.4-mile Watkins Glen circuit to claim pole position, beating Dane Cameron’s best effort in the MSR car by 0.119 seconds, and although Cameron tried to respond, he could never put all three sectors together as the

Turkington lies third in the points, so is carrying 57kg on his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport. While his best lap was good only for the seventh row of the grid, he completed six fliers all in the mid-48s bracket. “It was probably what I expected,” said Turkington. “The car was the best

W Series is making its debut on the Formula 1 bill at the Red Bull Ring this weekend and you might think that this is the first time an all-female line-up has graced the same asphalt as a Grand Prix. But, as we’re not even through the first paragraph of an article about women-only GP

The three-time MotoGP race winner aggravated a pre-existing injury in his knee during a training incident on Tuesday. The injury proved severe enough this time to rule him out of this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Assen, marking his first race absence since the 2018 German GP. Morbidelli underwent a one-hour operation on his meniscus

The Korean manufacturer has decided not to renew Penasse’s contract and will undergo a restructure of its squad mid-season. Penasse was a key figure in Hyundai’s return to the WRC in 2013 and has played a part in building the team into a championship winning outfit, alongside team boss Andrea Adamo, resulting in back-to-back manufacturer

Fallows has been at Red Bull for 15 years, having originally joined the Milton Keynes-based outfit back in 2006 as team leader in the aerodynamics department. In 2014, Fallows was the subject of a legal dispute, after McLaren believed it had signed him to join its squad before believing he was enticed to remain at

Marquez claimed a sensational win last time out at the Sachsenring, 581 days after his and Honda’s most recent success at the 2019 Valencia finale, the first since his career-threatening right arm break at Valencia last July. But the Honda rider expected to be strong at the Sachsenring due to its anticlockwise layout easing the

Magnussen father and son drove the High Class Racing ORECA-Gibson 07 over two days at the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain together with Anders Fjordbach, their team-mate for the double-points World Endurance Championship round on 21/22 August. The test, on Monday and Tuesday of this week, was described by Kevin Magnussen as “a good start

Despite a delay in lifting COVID-19 restrictions in the UK until 19 July, F1 officials remained confident of a bumper Silverstone crowd after talks over including the race in the government’s Event Research Programme. The programme will see large crowds attend the upcoming Euro 2020 games at Wembley, as well as the Wimbledon tennis tournament

Returning to the WRC after almost two decades away, Safari Rally Kenya is expected to offer drivers arguably the toughest test of the season with its mix of extreme road conditions and the additional prospect of crews coming across wildlife on the stages. Several drivers have reported sightings of wild animals on the stages, located

The NASCAR Hall of Famer became an analyst for NASCAR on Fox in 2016, following his retirement from full-time Cup Series competition. But now, he will become the vice chairman at Hendrick Motorsports, second only to chairman and majority owner Rick Hendrick. He will officially take over the position on 1 January, 2022. “I cannot

MotoGP’s 2020 visit to Motegi had to be scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with all of its Pacific flyaways and races in the Americas also cancelled because of the virus situation. The 2021 calendar initially postponed the US and Argentine races to the final part of the year on unspecified dates, while it was

After Mercedes-AMG GT3s locked out the top four spots on the grid for the opening race of the weekend, DTM’s official partner AVL Racing handed a 15kg weight reduction to the Audi R8 LMS GT3s, while also raising the boost pressures of the BMW M6 GT3 and the Ferrari 488 GT3. Haupt Racing Team (HRT)

Following an emotional victory for Marc Marquez at the German MotoGP, his first win since his comeback from a career-threatening injury, the MotoGP paddock moves on to the Netherlands for a final race before five weeks off with an extended summer break due to the cancellation of the Finnish GP. After strengthening his MotoGP world

A month after the evocative British sports car was unveiled in the spring of 1961 at the Geneva International Motor Show, the E-type was raced for the first time at Oulton Park when a pair of convertible road cars were prepared for F1 stars Graham Hill and Roy Salvadori. Sixty years on, ECD 400 was

It was mid-May when IndyCar revealed that the Toronto street race around Exhibition Place would have to be scrubbed from its schedule for the second straight year, due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, IndyCar said it was “considering various scenarios” for a replacement race, with one favourite being a third

Last week’s announcement that the final stage of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown had been delayed cast serious doubts over the viability of the event with Goodwood saying it would issue an update in due course about the 8-11 July extravaganza. The delayed easing of restrictions until at least the 19 July would’ve limited

Hamilton was able to take the lead at Paul Ricard on the opening lap after Verstappen made a mistake at Turn 2, and worked to create a small gap through the first stint. But when Hamilton pitted at the end of lap 19, he emerged from the pits behind Verstappen, who had come in one

He pounced on the duel between front-row starters Oliver Rowland and Pascal Wehrlein to move for his second attack mode activation and rejoined from the effective joker lap in clean air. From there, Mortara kept Wehrlein at bay thanks in part to repeatedly finding masses of time through the banked final Turn 15 to prevent

The Brit lined up second for the first race of the Mexican double-header alongside Porsche’s disqualified on-the-road winner Wehrlein but claimed the German’s scalp on Sunday. After progressing through from a composed group three run in which he complained of a lack of rear grip, Rowland moved into the superpole shootout and overcame a messy

The 17-year-old rookie won three of the first four races in 2021, but failed to crack the top six in the previous three rounds before returning to the top of the podium at the Sachsenring having come from 13th on the grid. Tatsuki Suzuki grabbed the holeshot from third on the grid on his SIC58

The German combo led comfortably from pole for the first Puebla E-Prix and crossed the line with a clear 3.6s margin but were soon sent to the bottom of the timing screens. The reprimand was dealt for the team not declaring the tyres on Wehrlein’s car, which would deny both parties their first series wins