New regulations governing the main rally-raid car category have forced the top teams to modify their existing 4×4 prototypes for the next edition of Dakar in January, as reported by Autosport earlier this year. Audi, which is making its debut in the legendary event, was the first manufacturer to reveal its innovative hybrid vehicle RS

Franchitti, who works with both Palou and Dixon in his role as driver advisor at Chip Ganassi Racing, says that the working relationship between them this year has been key to Palou’s remarkable first season with the team.  Franchitti won three of his titles with Ganassi and Dixon was his teammate throughout his five-year stint

The paddock has stayed behind at Misano for two days of official in-season testing following the San Marino Grand Prix, with 2022 developments and set-up work for October’s Emilia Romagna GP at the same venue the primary focus for teams. Rain in the morning left the circuit saturated for the first three-and-a-half-hour session to begin

Having claimed pole position for the second time this season, Lawson led the field for a double-file rolling start in his AF Corse Ferrari, with Marco Wittmann positioned alongside him on the front row. Lawson didn’t go on the power until moments before crossing the start line, with his clever strategy giving him a clear

Grosjean, who this week is expected to be confirmed at Andretti Autosport, switched to IndyCar after five increasingly frustrating years at the Haas Formula 1 team bled away the career momentum he had gathered with 10 podiums for the Lotus team. His F1 career came to an end in an even more abrupt manner than

Bagnaia stormed to his first MotoGP win at Aragon a week ago after a race-long battle with Marc Marquez, and resisted immense pressure from a charging Quartararo late on at Misano to seal a famous home win on his factory Ducati. Quartararo kept his championship lead at a healthy 48 points as he was spared

O’Ward qualified sixth and finished fifth at the Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey but championship leader Alex Palou of Ganassi qualified fourth and finished second. The result left O’Ward trailing by 35 points heading into next Sunday’s season finale at Long Beach. Consequently, even were O’Ward to clinch all bonus points and win the race,

Herta suffered a late scare after running over an animal, asking his team to check any damage to his front wing – but the Andretti Autosport driver was given the all-clear. He only had to stay ahead of Palou, who spent the second half of the race having to contend with traffic and a resurgent

Turkington, who was drawn on reversed-grid pole position, got the jump on front-row partner Gordon Shedden off the line, and never looked back. Turkington’s West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport was carrying 27kg of success ballast compared to the 33kg of Shedden’s Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R. Once again, the race was neutralised

His fourth win of the season has put Foggia into championship contention as he moves up to second in the standings after points leader Acosta could do no more than seventh on his Ajo KTM at Misano. Poleman Fenati grabbed the holeshot and resisted an attack from Avintia’s Niccolo Antonelli through the first sequence of

The three-time Supercars champion delivered a 1min10.8755sec lap of the 2.238-mile course, an average speed of 113.675mph, which put him 0.1469sec clear of Andretti Autosport’s 2019 Laguna Seca pole-winner Colton Herta. Third fastest was championship leader Alex Palou, the only Chip Ganassi Racing driver in the Top 10, with Simon Pagenaud and Will Power fourth

Vinales has been strong all weekend at Misano having first test the Aprilia at the Italian venue ahead of his Aragon debut last week. Ending Friday fastest of all, Vinales eased directly into Q2 and went on to qualify 10th on the RS-GP, 1.056 seconds off pole, but only 0.184 off eighth-placed team-mate Aleix Espargaro.

The Arrow McLaren SP driver held a 10-point advantage into last week’s Portland race, but Palou’s victory on a day when O’Ward could only muster a 14th place finish has transformed the landscape of the title battle with two rounds to go. O’Ward is one of three drivers seeking to dethrone Palou, with Team Penske’s

The new Aprilia rider’s 1m32.666s set moments before the rain intensified in the first practice session was enough to give the Spaniard top spot overall, with heavy rain returning for the start of the afternoon session. While Vinales says he was “much more calm” with topping FP1, he concedes it will have little bearing to

Earlier this year a group from Saudi Arabia headed by Prince Abdul Aziz, known as Tanal Entertainment, announced it had agreed a deal with VR46 and oil giant Aramco to bring Rossi’s team to MotoGP from 2022. However, Aramco later issued a statement to Autosport that no such title sponsorship deal existed – something it

The 2015 German F4 champion has been a regular in the GT arena for a number of years, racking up experience in a number of series including the World Endurance Championship, GT Masters and GT World Challenge Europe. With Buhk unavailable for the Hockenheim races on 2-3 October due to a clash with the GT

The Italian rider will make his first MotoGP start since leaving Ducati at the end of 2020 but has conducted tests for Aprilia in the intervening period this year. The various movements within the Yamaha squad, following Maverick Vinales’ mid-season departure to Aprilia, have allowed Dovizioso the chance to ride the Petronas SRT bike vacated

The Honda rider badly broke his right arm in last year’s Spanish Grand Prix and was ruled out of the rest of the COVID-shaped 2020 campaign, while he had to undergo three operations on the injury. He finally returned to action in Portugal in April and has since won the German GP, while adding a

While multiple Formula 1 driver deals have been confirmed for 2022, a number of race seats still need to be officially filled. Here’s how next year’s grid is shaping up. Mercedes Mercedes is, arguably, the team with the most attention on its driver line-up. Rumours of Mercedes young driver George Russell getting the call up

Following Francesco Bagnaia’s maiden MotoGP victory at the Aragon GP last weekend, the MotoGP paddock travels to Misano for the first of two races at the Italian circuit this season. Fabio Quartararo continues to lead the MotoGP standings having seen his advantage at the top of the championship trimmed to 53 points by Bagnaia’s win,

Reigning DTM Trophy Champion Tim Heinemann was successfully able to control the 1200bhp DTM Electric car from AVL Racing’s simulator in Graz, more than 80km east of the Formula 1 venue.  For this purpose, the championship equipped the under-development car with Schaeffler’s drive-by-wire system, which eliminated the need for a physical connection between the steering

F1 decided to trial sprint races at three grands prix in 2021, with the 100km sprints on Saturday setting the grid for Sunday’s full-length race. The two sprint races F1 has held so far, at Silverstone and Monza, produced mixed results at best. The running order was largely established after the first lap, as a

In the Italian Grand Prix’s FP2, Sainz lost control of his Ferrari in the middle of the fast Variante Ascari combination, spinning off the track on the inside and making hard head-on contact with the wall. It was Sainz’ third crash in four race weekends after going off in qualifying in Budapest before the summer

Marquez fought to the final lap with Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia in last Sunday’s Aragon GP, but ultimately came up second-best to the Italian in a thrilling scrap. The anticlockwise nature of Aragon negated the limitations Marquez still currently has with the right side of his body, while also allowing him to ride around the 2021

The Award, which started in 1989, aims to find and assist the best junior British racing drivers. There was a hiatus last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the Award is returning in its familiar format. Aston Martin joined the Award in 2019 and the prize for this year’s winner includes £200,000. Finalists have

Silverstone, UK – September 7, 2021.  The entry list for the newly launched Le Mans Virtual Series, the global, elite endurance Esports series, has today been revealed and it features some of the world’s best-known motorsport and sim racing names. The full season list of teams can be found HERE, with all driver names –

The factory Ducati rider has come close to victory in MotoGP before, but has been cruelly denied by misfortune and error. However, during the Aragon weekend, Bagnaia proved faultless, displaying strong pace throughout practice before taking pole with a lap-record-smashing effort. He led from the off and stayed in front for all 23 laps of

Verstappen’s Red Bull was launched into the air by the array of sausage kerbs, precipitating contact between the underside of his car and Hamilton’s halo. Had the halo not been introduced to F1’s regulations in 2018, there is a very real chance that Hamilton would not have walked out of the incident unscathed. However, the

Palou resisted the advances of Alexander Rossi on the final pair of restarts – caused by spin and stalls from Simon Pagenaud and Oliver Askew respectively – after catching the Andretti driver off-guard on both occasions. Rossi was able to wind Palou in on the final stint, getting within a second of the Chip Ganassi

The Dutchman and Hamilton collided at the first chicane on lap 26 of the Italian Grand Prix, just after a sequence of pitstops. Hamilton had emerged ahead of Verstappen and held the inside line in to the first chicane, with his rival trying to go around the outside and claim the apex for the second