The Finn announced his shock departure from M-Sport last Friday leaving the British squad with immediate effect despite being rostered to pilot the team’s WRC2 entry at the Acropolis Rally later this month. Suninen was also set to jump back behind the wheel of a M-Sport WRC Ford Fiesta at Rally Finland in October. In

Formula 1 was a very different place the last time the coastal resort of Zandvoort hosted a grand prix. Three-time world champion Niki Lauda was in the twilight of his career, doing battle with rising stars like Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. Nelson Piquet was right in the middle of his illustrious F1 career, heading

The 1982 World Rally Championship runner-up said in an interview with Le Figaro that there was a “limited level” in the all-female series “since the best performers don’t participate.” Mouton, head of the FIA’s Women in Motorsport Commission, said: “If the W Series can be seen as a detection/selection channel to attract more young women

Guenther held a contract with BMW for the 2019-21 seasons, becoming the youngest race winner in the championship, but will move squads following the manufacturer’s series exit. The newly independent Andretti Autosport race team, which will run a customer BMW powertrain next year, has taken on the contract of breakout rookie star Jake Dennis. But

It took a long time but Kimi Raikkonen has finally won the world championship title that he so clearly deserves. And, of course, it came at the expense of McLaren after his own two near misses with the British team in 2003 and ’05. This was an extraordinary season for the Finn that began with

The nine-time MotoGP race winner rode the RS-GP for the first time at a private test at Misano on Tuesday and Wednesday following his dismissal from the factory Yamaha squad earlier this month. Aprilia has now confirmed Vinales – who has signed a deal to race for the marque for 2022 – will make his

The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion tested at Texas Motor Speedway on Monday, turning a best lap that would have put him fourth on the grid for this year’s double-header there. Johnson has raced the #48 Ganassi entry on all the road and street courses this year but handed off to Tony Kanaan for the four

Norris disagrees with the principle of points being handed out with no proper racing laps completed, while acknowledging that the six earned by his McLaren teammate Daniel Ricciardo for fourth place were useful in the ongoing battle with Ferrari. Norris had a shot pole at Spa having been fastest in Q1 and Q2 on Saturday,

Amid wide-scale unease about the way that F1’s rules meant that championship points were handed out after drivers completed just three behind a safety car in Belgium last weekend, Todt has confirmed that the regulations will be looked at. In a statement issued on Twitter, Todt that he will table talks regarding the situation at

The Yamaha rider, despite hurting his ankle in a heavy crash during practice, romped to his fifth win of the 2021 campaign to edge ever closer to that first world title. Now 65 points clear of his nearest rival Joan Mir, the reigning world champion admits his title defence is now virtually over after he

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was declared the winner of Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix despite completing just two official laps behind the safety car, meeting the minimum requirement for points to be awarded. Verstappen scored 12.5 points for the win, taking five points out of Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton’s lead at the top of the drivers’

Vierge competes for SRT in the Moto2 class and was offered the chance to replace the injured Franco Morbidelli on the 2019-spec M1 at Aragon. The Spaniard’s team-mate Jake Dixon did so last weekend at the British Grand Prix, after SRT’s original stand-in Cal Crutchlow was drafted into the factory Yamaha squad to replace the

While the FIA and F1 race director Michael Masi have been commended for not pushing on and allowing racing in the dangerous wet conditions at Spa on Sunday, there is unease about the way a result was declared and points handed out after just three laps behind a safety car. World champion Lewis Hamilton was

After a long delay due to the wet conditions the event eventually started behind the safety car, but it was then stopped after just three laps. That was enough to ensure that half World Championship points could be awarded to the top 10. Some observers have suggested that F1 wanted the race to officially start

The Suzuki rider recovered from 11th on the grid to run strongly inside the top six early in the race and was running a pace that threatened a podium charge. But while team-mate Alex Rins went on to secure second, Mir faded to ninth at the chequered flag as he encountered an issue with his soft

Norris was fastest in both Q1 and Q2 before he hit the barrier at the top of Raidillon at the start of a soaking wet Q3 session, which Aston Martin’s Sebastien Vettel had moments earlier said should have been stopped due to standing water. The incident brought out a red flag and led to a

Sebastien Loeb and Cristina Gutierrez had run fastest in the morning by a sound 3.7s but were pipped in the second session by the final flying run of Nico Rosberg’s concern. This came after Loeb acknowledged a deliberately conservative lap in a bid to avoid the reliability woes that had afflicted their rivals in addition

Russell made it through to Q3 for the third time in four races in the wet conditions, and was forced to pit to switch to intermediates early in the final session after starting on wets. But Russell opted to save up his engine power and modes for his final lap in Q3, and lit up