A charging drive earned Steve Simpson the season-opening Tin Tops victory in the Peugeot 206 RC he shared with father Colin for the Classic Sports Car Club event at Oulton Park. The pair qualified second but were promoted to pole by gearbox failure on the Honda Integra of Nigel Ainge and Danny Cassar. Simpson Sr

The Australian joined the Woking-based team at the start of this year, as he bids to help the outfit get back to winning ways. But beyond the F1 ambitions, McLaren’s involvement in IndyCar, plus CEO Zak Brown’s association with Supercars, has teed up a good chance of some running outside of grand prix cars. Brown

James has played an instrumental role in creating and implementing many of the technical systems and processes that have helped make F1 such a global hit – including the establishment of its state-of-the-art broadcast centre. As well as helping ensure the series remained at the cutting edge of technology and never missed a beat during

MotoGP returns to Europe after its Qatar residency – as the Losail International Circuit hosted both pre-season testing and the opening two rounds – after the start of the season was reshuffled amid COVID-19 pandemic issues. Instead of heading to the United States and Argentina after the Qatar season-opener, the MotoGP paddock descends on Portimao

The Italian manufacturer is the only one of the six present on the current MotoGP grid who supplies bikes to two satellite squads on top of its factory effort. Long-time partner Pramac receives full factory support from Ducati, with both current championship leader Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin running identical machinery to works team duo

The US entrant appeared on the initial entry list for the Spa 6 Hours on May 1 published last month, but marque founder Jim Glickenhaus stressed that he had not committed to taking part with his pair of Pipo-engined 007LMHs. Now, he has confirmed that Glickenhaus Racing will miss the Belgian series opener and instead

The Honda star hasn’t been on his RC213V since his aborted comeback at the Andalusian GP last July just days after surgery on the right arm he broke in the Spanish GP, with Friday’s FP1 session at Algarve marking the first time he’ll have ridden a MotoGP bike in 265 days. No one is sure

WTCR Hyundai teams BRC Hyundai N Lukoil Squadra Corse and Engstler Hyundai N Liqui Moly Racing Team will each debut two Elantras in this year’s eight-round championship.  Touring car legend Gabriele Tarquini, a winner of BTCC, ETCC, WTCC and WTCR titles, will pilot an Elantra for the BRC squad alongside 36-year-old former WTCR champion Norbert

The latest series of Drive to Survive has served to divide opinion among F1 supporters, with some revelling in the background insights while others getting riled by the way it has top-spun some of the drama. In particular, the frequent cutting in of radio conversations or comments to play up controversy grated with some –

Envision Virgin Racing driver and championship rookie Cassidy had snared pole by three tenths over fellow newcomer Norman Nato but lost that lead at Turn 3 in the race. Following the start procedure behind the safety car owing to damp patches at Turns 5 and 7, Cassidy led away but span almost immediately when he

The Italian has taken over the Tech3 seat vacated by factory rider Miguel Oliveira after the Italian lost his place at Ducati for 2021. Tech3 managed to win two races in 2020 courtesy of Oliveira, but has endured a difficult start to the 2021 campaign with Petrucci. He qualified 21st and 17th for the opening

Race director Scot Elkins elected to start the field behind the safety car on account of the wet track, but when green flag conditions were called Lotterer attempted an opening-lap pass on polesitter Vandoorne into the Turn 7 left-hander. The Porsche driver dived up the inside of the 90-degree corner and made contact with Vandoorne.

Polesitter Vandoorne led the field at the start of the race behind the safety car that was called in response to a light rain shower that hit the circuit between qualifying and the race. Vandoorne was tagged on the opening lap by Andre Lotterer and dropped to 13th but recovered strongly, aided by a penalty

In its push to create more downforce and reduce the drag on its FW43B car for 2021, Williams opted for an aggressive design approach that causes its performance to dip in windy conditions. Williams driver Russell struggled with the gusty conditions during both pre-season testing and the opening grand prix of the year in Bahrain,

Boles and Indiana governor Eric Holcomb – an IndyCar fan and longtime friend of Team Penske president Tim Cindric – were interviewed by Marty Snider on NBC Peacock’s live stream during the second day of testing at Indy. After last year’s Indy 500 was delayed until August but still had to be held in front of

McLaren finished third in last year’s constructors’ championship and the Woking outfit is tipped to confirm its status as best of the rest behind Red Bull and Mercedes in 2021. While McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Norris qualified sixth and seventh respectively in Bahrain, behind a Ferrari and an AlphaTauri, Norris worked his way up

The McLaren driver believes the championship needs to reconsider its attitude to crashes, feeling that too much effort is made in glorifying accidents rather than focusing on F1’s other elements. Last year, Ricciardo spoke to F1 chiefs to voice his displeasure at the way that they had repeatedly played repeats of Romain Grosjean’s fiery accident

Starting his fifth lap of the famed 2.5-mile oval, the front-left wheel of the #21 ECR machine went down below the white line negotiating Turn 1 and the rear continued to swing around, but it went through only one 360-degree spin before striking the outside SAFER barrier on the exit of Turn 1 with its

Ahead of its switch from Class One to GT3 machinery, the DTM held a two-day test at the former German Grand Prix venue from 7-8 April, with the data from the running to be used to finalise the BoP for the new season. After the pitlane was opened at 9am local time, 2017 Audi TT

Verstappen was engaged in a close battle with Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton throughout the F1 season-opener in Bahrain that was settled in the final stages. Verstappen overtook Hamilton with four laps to go around the outside of Turn 4, but was forced to hand back the position after officials ruled that he made the overtake

The series will stay on at the Glen after the Sahlen’s Six Hours race on 27 June, to run a 2hr40min event on Friday, 2 July. The new race will feature all five classes (DPi, LMP2, LMP3, GTLM and GTD), while only the GTD race will count towards the eight-race Sprint Cup point standings. The

Following the demise of the Class One era, Wednesday’s test day marked the first official DTM running with GT3 cars that will form the basis of the championship in 2021. A total of four sessions were held during the day, two of them shared with the GT4-based DTM Trophy, with a total of eight hours

If you’re a regular viewer of Sky Sports and Channel 4’s F1 coverage, you’ll no doubt have heard the pundits and commentators talk about high downforce and power tracks. Although these aren’t official terms, they help describe the different characteristics of each new circuit and explain why teams don’t simply qualify in the same order

Miller ended last weekend’s second round of the 2021 season in ninth after suffering from arm pump in the closing stages of the race. He admitted after the race he was evaluating having surgery on his arm, with Ducati confirming Miller went under the knife in Barcelona at the Dexeus University Hospital, with the operation

After every race this season, the FIA will select a finishing car at random and subject it to a deeper level of checks and analysis than is usually the case, focusing on particular areas. Teams are trusted to show up with cars that are fully legal, and indeed the F1 sporting regulations note that “competitors

Tanak scored only his second World Rally Championship win as a Hyundai driver at February’s Arctic Rally Finland where he defeated the Toyota Yaris of Kalle Rovanpera by 17.5 seconds. The result moved him up to fifth in the standings and was in stark contrast to the opening round at Rally Monte-Carlo where he retired

McPhee and Gresini rider Alcoba were part of the manic lead group in Sunday’s thrilling Moto3 encounter in Qatar. Alcoba ran into the back of McPhee’s team-mate Darryn Binder at Turn 1 at the start of lap 15, crashing out while his errant Gresini bike flicked into McPhee’s path and hit the Scotsman on the

The two-day test at the Red Bull Ring was a significant milestone for Correa, who contested his first competitive motorsport session since surviving a tragic multiple car Formula 2 crash at Spa in 2019 that claimed the life of Anthoine Hubert. The 21-year-old American has been on a long road to recovery, that has included

After being teammates in karting, Hamilton and Rosberg raced at Mercedes between 2013 and 2016, going head-to-head for the F1 world championship in their final three years together. The title battles featured a number of tense moments between the two drivers, including on-track collisions at the 2014 Belgian Grand Prix and the 2016 Spanish Grand

Quartararo was left in ninth at the end of the opening laps having been swamped from fifth on the grid. But the Yamaha rider carved his way through the pack and by lap 19 had taken over from long-time leader Jorge Martin on the Pramac Ducati, from which point Quartararo sped off to the fourth