There aren’t too many circuits around the world that conjure up as much passion and drama when you mention their names. For motorsport fans, these two little French words never fail to send chills down spines: Le Mans. Whether it’s the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans car race, or MotoGP’s now traditional yearly stop

Mayor John Tory announced the cancellation of several events in line with the stay-at-home order across the state of Ontario. This restriction was originally set to end on July 1, but has now been extended to September 6. Green Savoree Racing Promotions (GSRP), which also runs the St. Petersburg, Mid-Ohio and Portland events, said in

Last week, NASCAR revealed the three models that manufacturers Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota will use next year. All teams will now have to invest in buying the new standardised chassis and common components to build up their fleet of cars for the 36-round 2022 season. NASCAR has capped teams at seven cars per driver for

Miller qualified on the front row for last year’s Le Mans race, but rain just before the start forced everyone to change to their second bikes. Unfortunately for Miller, his second bike had developed mechanical issue in warm-up and wasn’t due to be run again for the rest of Sunday. But with the weather forcing

The series will conclude its current season with maiden double-headers near the Mexican city of Puebla and the ExCeL Centre in London, in addition to Berlin and New York events. But Autosport understands that four cities are in line to make their debut for the final campaign of the Gen2 car, with the provisional calendar

Both three-time Dakar winner Sainz and WRC champion Loeb lashed out at the roadbook over the course of the two-week marathon in Saudi Arabia in January, having lost heaps of time with unrelated navigational troubles. X-Raid Mini driver Sainz said he was “fed up” after getting lost in the desert twice in the first three

Last Friday Reutemann, who finished runner-up to Nelson Piquet in the 1981 F1 world championship, was transferred from the Santa Fe hospital to a different hospital in Rosario after repeated episodes of internal bleeding due to a digestive haemorrhage. Reutemann, who has been treated at the intensive care section of Rosario’s Sanatorio Parque ever since, was reported as

Perez was signed by Red Bull to partner Max Verstappen for this season after his exit from Racing Point, becoming the fourth different driver in the team’s second seat in as many years. Perez said before the season began that he expected to take four or five races to get up to speed, and has

Questions over the design of the Red Bull rear wing in particular were floated during the Spanish GP last weekend after Lewis Hamilton suggested its design was “bendy”. The inference was that Red Bull could be exploiting a more flexible wing that rotates down on the straights to boost top speed, but then comes up

The Eurofarma Team reported that Mauricio is feeling fine, “with only mild symptoms” of the virus that has swept the world and in his place the team has selected da Costa, who won the recent Formula E Monaco E-Prix for DS Techeetah. He is scheduled to arrive in Sao Paulo on Thursday, ahead of this

The Kiwi was at that point out of a full-time Supercars ride, having lost seats with Prodrive Racing Australia and LD Motorsport at the end of the pervious two seasons. He then spent the 2017 season racing in Carrera Cup and even missed out on a full-time enduro drive in Supercars.  With nothing on the

Rossi has scored just four points from the opening four rounds of a campaign that could be his last in MotoGP, as his current deal with Yamaha and Petronas SRT expires at the end of 2021. With just one 12th-place finish to his credit, this marks Rossi’s worst start to a season in his entire

Turkington was attempting to defend second place from Josh Cook into the Complex on the first lap when his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport tapped the rear of Sutton’s Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50, dropping the reigning and two-time title winner to the tail of the field. Sutton stormed back to finish 10th,

The Spanish Grand Prix has hardly cemented itself as a must-watch in Formula 1 through recent history, yet Sunday’s race had plenty going for it to entertain hardcore fans. Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen went wheel-to-wheel for the fourth race in a row, only for their tussle to ultimately be settled by their respective pit

Giovinazzi was the first driver to dash into the pitlane when Yuki Tsunoda’s retirement on track triggered an early safety car. However, as the team prepared to fit a new set of tyres, a crew member realised that one of them was flat. After signalling to his colleagues, the change was aborted, and a second

Sutton, on wet-weather tyres, had lost the lead to the slick-shod Jake Hill, but as the rain once again intensified in the closing stages he was able to home in for the kill, and took the lead with two and a half laps remaining. Sutton started his Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50 from third on

Cook started his BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R from the front row, but lost out to the rear-wheel-drive cars of poleman Ash Sutton (Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50) and third qualifier Colin Turkington (West Surrey Racing BMW 330i M Sport) at the start. Cook then tried to repass Turkington around the outside into the

The Japanese driver was angry after being dumped out of Q1 for the Spanish Grand Prix, having been left with no explanation as to why he was lacking pace. Tsunoda went on to suggest that the characteristics of his AlphaTauri AT02 car seemed different to those of Gasly across the garage, who managed to qualify

The 79-year-old politician, who finished runner-up to Nelson Piquet in the 1981 F1 world championship, was admitted to the Sanatorio Santa Fe on Wednesday after suffering a digestive haemorrhage. On Friday, the Santa Fe hospital reported the serving Argentinian senator’s condition was “clinically stable, with acceptable haemodynamic parameters”. But after a new episode of internal

Liberty Media has long been trying to expand the sport in the USA, and finally achieved its first goal when last month it confirmed that the first Miami GP will be held in 2022. Asked in a call with Wall Street analysts if a local driver on the grid in Miami would boost the sport

Travellers returning to the UK who have been in countries on the list in the previous 10 days are obliged to pay for a compulsory 10-day quarantine in government-approved hotels. Turkey will officially join the red list on 12 May, a month before the scheduled race date of 13 June. It’s understood that the usual

Four-time F1 world champion Vettel has failed to score any points in his first three races with Aston Martin, having struggled with the car’s rear-end instability following the FIA’s downforce cuts for 2021. But the team hoped to remedy his struggles with an upgrade package that was used by team-mate Lance Stroll last weekend in

Double 125cc world champion and veteran team boss Gresini passed away in February after a battle with COVID-19. Last week it was announced his wife Nadia Padovani had taken over ownership of Gresini Racing and had become its team principal ahead of its return to independent status in MotoGP from 2022. Aprilia – who confirmed

At the yearly Laureus World Sport Awards, dubbed the Oscars of sport, Hamilton was the first recipient of the new Athlete Advocate of the Year Award, which recognises the Mercedes driver’s ongoing efforts to support racial justice and promote diversity. During the 2020 Formula 1 season, in the wake of the George Floyd murder and

Red Bull-backed Liam Lawson set the early pace on Day 3 of the Lausitzring test after the track dried out enough for slick tyre running, leading the timesheets with a 1m43.740s lap in the #30 Ferrari 488 GT3. Haupt Racing Team’s Gotz then managed to shave three tenths out of Lawson’s benchmark to go quickest,

The British Racing & Sports Car Club category was launched in the middle of last year and features bespoke track-focused examples of the Citroen C1, Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo. Special conversion kits – including a remapped ECU and adjustable suspension – can be purchased, or drivers can buy ready-to-race cars. Unlike other series for C1s

The Next Gen car (aka Gen-7) is being readied to be introduced for the 2022 Cup Series season, having been postponed from 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary aims are to lower costs for teams and prove more attractive to OEMs (road car manufacturers) to join Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota in NASCAR

Along with Chevrolet and Ford, Toyota revealed its 2022 Next Gen Cup Series car – now called the TRD Camry – on Wednesday. It features a standardised chassis, which means teams will no longer fabricate their own cars from scratch – or buy them from others via technical alliances – but purchase the tubular frame

The six-time MotoGP world champion rode to eighth in last Sunday’s Jerez race, the second of his comeback from a nine-month injury layoff. Though he is still not at his physical peak yet, he admitted his condition was better on the bike than it was in Portugal, and this allowed him for the first time

Most of the day’s quickest times were set in the two-hour afternoon session, with all but three drivers able to improve on Philip Ellis’ morning benchmark of 1m45.816s. Arjun Maini, Gotz and two-time DTM champion Marco Wittmann all managed to overhaul Ellis in the first hour of running after the mid-day break, before Formula E