The Belgian, who led the rally overnight on Friday but lost out with an incorrect tyre choice on Saturday’s morning loop, was unable to use the single spare tyre he carried in the boot of his Hyundai i20 Coupe as the lifting device needed to raise and lower the car on road sections to change

Changing regulations, particularly in Formula 1, can be expensive. Invariably they come with cries of being unnecessary and sometimes the reasons for them can be debated. Lewis Hamilton has already suggested that the tweaks for 2021 were made to “peg us back” in the wake of Red Bull’s renewed challenge to Mercedes. But rule changes

Suzuka has held the Japanese Grand Prix in all but two years since its first staged an F1 race in 1987, but its existing contract was due to expire after the 2021 race scheduled for 8-10 October. In an announcement made on Saturday morning, F1 revealed that it had agreed a three-year extension to the

The seven-time WRC champion made history by chalking up his 600th at Rally Croatia this afternoon, arriving at the milestone by negotiating the ‘Jaškovo to Mali Modruš Potok’ test three-tenths of a second quicker than Thierry Neuville, who provisionally leads the Zagreb-based event overall by 7.7s. Ogier continued his purple patch into Friday’s closing stage,

The young Finn crashed out heavily around three miles into the asphalt event’s ‘Plesivica’ test – the shortest of the weekend at 4.31-miles. As Rovanpera approached a tightening right hander, his Toyota Yaris ran wide and was sucked off the road. Both he and co-driver Jonne Halttunen managed to walk away unhurt, although their car

According to a bulletin from the FIA, NIO 333 did not report the positive result straight away to the COVID-19 delegate and “made no declaration about possible unfit attendees”. Instead, the stewards concluded that initial contact with the hygiene board came “several hours” after the Li Sheng Racing-owned outfit was first made aware of the

The Scot, who has been out of the BTCC for three seasons, whisked his Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R around a gargantuan 0.194 seconds clear of his closest opposition on the four-cornered circuit with a couple of late runs. Out of five fliers, three of Shedden’s laps were quicker than anyone else’s best, and

The 41-year-old, who won the World Touring Car Championship title in 2012, has been a stalwart on the global scene since making his touring car bow with SEAT in the 2004 British Touring Car Championship, winning 31 races in the WTCC and WTCR series. After landing the title in the final year of Chevrolet’s WTCC

Bottas and Russell collided while battling for ninth place in Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with the severity of their crash resulting in a red flag. Both drivers were quick to blame each other for causing the crash that left Bottas’ Mercedes car with a significant amount of damage that could limit the team’s upgrade

The MP Motorsport driver and Alpine Academy member, who won last year’s Formula Renault Eurocup championship, topped the time sheets with a 1m31.743s set during the afternoon session. He led from Doohan, with ART GP driver and Mercedes junior Frederik Vesti in third. Trident’s Clement Novalak came fourth, followed by Hitech’s Jak Crawford and Charouz

Williams endured a disastrous Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with both its drivers suffering sizeable accidents in a chaotic wet-dry race. On the opening lap Nicholas Latifi thumped the wall after colliding with Haas driver Nikita Mazepin. Halfway through the race George Russell crashed into Valtteri Bottas after attempting to overtake the Mercedes driver. Despite a

Made up of 12 founding clubs, including Premier League ‘big six’ Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur, the ESL’s plans have caused consternation from fans and pundits concerned that it will tear apart the fabric of ‘the beautiful game’. Regardless of how its plans proceed, with staunch opposition building from all

A round in Mexico City at the usual Circuit Hermanos Rodriguez venue was initially scheduled for 13 February this season, the second round of the calendar, before it was then postponed in October. In a bid to achieve a record 15-race schedule, championship organisers have since been assessing a return to Mexico as part of

Johnson, who retired from NASCAR last season after a distinguished career with Hendrick Motorsports, is running all the non-oval races this year for Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda. After qualifying 21st for his first start in America’s premier open-wheel series, he was almost taken out in the opening lap chaos caused in the aftermath of spinning frontrunner

Corberi, 23, was involved in an incident at Lonato during the world finals of the KZ category in which he crossed the track and threw the front fairing of his kart at another driver while the race was still ongoing. Corberi faced widespread condemnation through motorsport for his behaviour towards Paolo Ippolito, having also sparked

The Williams driver was left furious with Bottas after believing that the Mercedes driver had deliberately squeezed him off the track as they battled for position at Imola and came together in a 200mph accident. In the wake of their incident, Russell angrily marched to Bottas’ car to let his feelings be known. He later

Formula 1’s second race at Imola in the space of six months offered a vastly different affair to the inaugural Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in November. A pre-race rain shower left some drivers and teams battling to make it to the grid at all, while the greasy track made mistakes all the most costly once

In a race dominated by Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports driver Bowman pounced on a late restart to charge past Joey Logano and leader Denny Hamlin to assume control of the race in the dying stages. He had little trouble from that point hanging on for the win, finishing 0.381 seconds ahead of Hamlin to

Verstappen was leading the pack around for a rolling start following the race’s suspension after the massive accident that eliminated Valtteri Bottas and George Russell, but lost control of his Red Bull at the first Rivazza turn just before he was due to resume racing speed. The Red Bull speared left over the kerbs on

The Australian has had a challenging Imola weekend so far, with teammate Lando Norris quicker than him over the two days of action. And although Ricciardo outqualified Norris, that was only because his teammate had his best time deleted due to a small track limits infringement at Turn 9. Ricciardo has confessed to needing more

The Arrow McLaren SP driver, who is embarking on only his second full season in IndyCar, produced a new track record of 1m05.847s to edge out Rossi of Andretti Autosport by just 0.069s. In the frantic fast six final qualifying stage, fellow youngster Alex Palou narrowly missed out on the front row in his first

Following its season of inactivity, the IndyCar Series’ feeder championship returned with a 13-car entry, an improvement on the eight AER-powered Dallara IL-15s that started its last race at Laguna Seca in September 2019. Swedish 22-year-old Lundqvist, the 2018 British F3 champion, was an expected favourite after scoring 15 wins from 17 races on his

The French car manufacturer has slipped back against its main rivals this year, and it left the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix without scoring any points. While the team is hopeful that an aggressive upgrade push can lift it up the grid, its executive director Marcin Budkowski says its difficulties can be traced back to

In Marquez’s absence in 2020 through injury, Mir and Suzuki ended his domination of the world championship – though Mir had the legitimacy of his title repeatedly questioned because he won it without Marquez present. These were claims both riders dismissed. Marquez returned to action after a nine-month layoff on Friday at the Algarve International

Quartararo ended Friday’s running at the Algarve International Circuit second overall, 0.340 seconds off Francesco Bagnaia’s FP2-topping lap on the Ducati. The Portimao venue was one of the weakest tracks for the 2020 Yamaha factory riders, but Quartararo attributes much of his struggles last year – when he slumped to 14th in the race, which

As Tsunoda is 5ft2, he says his team has built a “a special pedal case” to ensure he can operate the pedals in the AT02 as usual. Tsunoda explained the situation in the pre-event press conference for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, a home event for the AlphaTauri squad as the Imola track is just

The six-time world champion will make his long-awaited return to racing this weekend in the Portuguese Grand Prix, following nine months on the sidelines with a broken right arm suffered in last July’s Spanish GP. In his absence, Honda failed to win a race for the first time ever since it returned to the premier

Englishman Carchedi has worked with Mir since the Spaniard’s debut in MotoGP in 2019, with the pair winning the world championship last season. Mir will be without his right-hand man for this weekend’s third round of the 2021 season in Portugal after Carchedi failed a pre-travel COVID test. Carchedi has gone into isolation in Andorra

The long-awaited competition debut of the new E-type Jaguar has been made at last. Two of the magnificent Coventry machines appeared in the main race of the day at the British Automobile Racing Club national meeting at Oulton Park. Their first appearance was an impressive one, both cars being in virtually standard trim and leading

The 45-year-old will make his single-seater debut this season after almost two decades at the top level of stock car racing, contesting the 13 road and street course races on the IndyCar schedule with reigning champion squad Chip Ganassi Racing. Johnson will join six-time series champion Scott Dixon, ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson and second-year