The Silverstone squad is gearing up for the launch of its AMR23 car at its factory on 13 February, with interest surrounding the team heightened with it having signed Fernando Alonso to partner Lance Stroll for the 2023 season. Although it remains coy about the details of the design of its new challenger, Aston Martins deputy technical director Eric Blandin suggests there should be some ... Keep reading
Teams from Acura, BMW, Cadillac and Porsche will get five practice sessions through Friday and Saturday in the Roar Before the Rolex 24, which will likely all be used to simulate race runs. Although the four GTP marques have previously tested together at Daytona in December, there was no official timing to reflect their relative pace. In early December, IMSA announced that this year's ... Keep reading
Known primarily for its engine work in Formula 1 176 wins in total and in the present day the powerplants for both the Aston Martin Valkyrie and Gordon Murray T.50 hypercars, engineering firm Cosworth haslaunched its first foray into sim racing with the CCW MkII Pro Sim steering wheel. Unveiled at the Autosport International motorsport event at the Birmingham National ... Keep reading
The band is back together. Penske and Porsche have teamed up to run the new 963 LMDh car in both the World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship. And expectations are rightly high after the huge success enjoyed by their last collaboration on the RS Spyder LMP2 project, which yielded American Le Mans Series class titles in all three years that the factory programme ran. All who ... Keep reading
The W13 came to be most closely associated with the porpoising problem that impacted every F1 team to some extent during the first season of the championship returning to running ground-effects designs. Although Mercedes was able to address the specific aerodynamic porpoising issue, it then spent the next phase of the campaign working to fix a ride problem the porpoising had been masking before ... Keep reading
The eight-time world champion and eight-time Monte Carlo winner kicked off his partial WRC season in style to head into Friday with a 6.0s lead over Toyota teammate Elfyn Evans. New M-Sport signing Ott Tanak ended the opening tests in third, 15.4s adrift despite being without fifth gear aboard his Ford Puma. Thierry Neuville led Hyundais charge in fourth but was lucky not fall further ... Keep reading
The Silverstone squad is gearing up for the launch of its AMR23 car at its factory on 13 February, with interest surrounding the team heightened with it having signed Fernando Alonso to partner Lance Stroll for the 2023 season. Although it remains coy about the details of the design of its new challenger, Aston Martin's deputy technical director Eric Blandin suggests there should be some ... Keep reading
Lionel Messi has accomplished everything in football from seven Ballon d'Ors to a World Cup, yet he still isn't close to matching tennis star Jessica Pegula when it comes to net worth
Abiteboul's recent arrival at Hyundai, after a long spell in F1 as a team boss at the Caterham and Renault squads, helped fuel speculation that the company could be eyeing a move into grand prix racing. F1 chiefs have long talked about a number of manufacturers holding talks behind the scenes to join the sport after new engine regulations kick in from 2026. It has been suggested that Hyundai ... Keep reading
Kevin Siggy should currently be preparing for a season in the DTM Trophy, the former GT4 support class of Germanys premier GT3 series. Instead, hes been focusing on the Le Mans Virtual Series and a calendar filled with sim racing Esports events whichwill undoubtedly be successful for the Team Redline driver. When it comes to non-iRacing virtual competitions, Siggy is among the very ... Keep reading
The Briton renewed his relationship with the Woking squad twice in quick succession. He agreed one contract extension in May 2021 before inking another on revised terms in February of last year. Provisionally, that means he will remain with McLaren - which finished fifth behind Alpine in the constructors championship last season - until the end of 2025. But Red Bull team boss ... Keep reading
The AJ Foyt Racing-Chevrolet will be car #88 and will run in what the team refers to as Coyote Red a hark back to the Coyote chassis used by Foyt from 1966 to 83, which used to run in a similar color. The #88 number is a new one for the Foyt team and is, coincidentally, the age of the seven-time Indy car champion and first four-time Indy 500 winner who is still in charge of ... Keep reading
The Woking outfit has expanded its racing operations considerably in recent years after fresh investment over the previous two years, starting with it taking a majority shareholding in the Schmidt Peterson Racing IndyCar team ahead of the 2020 season - which now races as Arrow McLaren. It has also diversified its interests by extending its reach into electric racing, setting up an Extreme E ... Keep reading
The PremiAir Racing driver will make a one-off start in the Aussie Trans Am series as a stand-in driver for brand new team The Racing Academy. Run by renowned driver coach Tom Williamson and his business partner Doug Westwood, The Racing Academy will field young drivers in state-level Formula Ford and national Trans Am. The regular Trans Am line-up for 2023 will be former karting world ... Keep reading
The Roar Before the 24, the qualifying event for the 2023 Rolex 24 At Daytona, runs January 20th-22nd culminating in qualifying. This year, IMSA reverts to the traditional form of class-by-class qualifying as featured at other rounds of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, rather than the sprint race weve seen at the Daytona road course for the last two years. Still, its worth noting ... Keep reading
The four-time race winner will be looking to bounce back from what was a difficult first season with Walkinshaw Andretti United. Percat struggled with the fickle WAU package compared to teammate Chaz Mostert, particularly when it came to qualifying speed. His cause wasn't helped by a number of engineering changes on his side of the garage, with Geoff Slater starting the season as his ... Keep reading
Motorsport.com has learned that for at least the first part of this season drivers won't be able to manipulate the front or rear roll bars on the fly. Roll bar adjustment will instead only be able to be made under the car during pitstops, similar to the system used in GT3 racing. This is the second time Supercars has moved to stop in-car bar adjustment, the series having considered dropping ... Keep reading
The W13 came to be most closely associated with the porpoising problem that impacted every F1 team to some extent during the first season of the championship returning to running ground-effects designs. Although Mercedes was able to address the specific aerodynamic porpoising issue, it then spent the next phase of the campaign working to fix a ride problem the porpoising had been masking before ... Keep reading
Since the end of last season, Nissan, Toyota and Honda have all run their GT500 machines in one form or another. Toyota held a two-day test in late December at Motegi, where Ukyo Sasahara got his first miles in a GR Supra, joined on-track by Honda's #99 development car. Earlier in the month, Nissan had its two NISMO machines in action for a day at Fuji Speedway dedicated to evaluating young ... Keep reading
The FIA insisted on a more stringent layout, in order to prevent any elaborate concepts that might erode the foundations for good racing upon which the regulations had been framed. Steps had already been taken in recent years to rid the front wing of outwash generating devices, such as cascade elements, while the number of flap elements, which had once reached nine in total, is now limited to ... Keep reading
The FIA insisted on a more stringent layout, in order to prevent any elaborate concepts that might erode the foundations for good racing upon which the regulations had been framed. Steps had already been taken in recent years to rid the front wing of outwash-generating devices, such as cascade elements, whilst the number of flap elements, which had once reached nine in total, is now limited to ... Keep reading
The Woking outfit has expanded its racing operations considerably in recent years after fresh investment over the previous two years, starting with it taking a majority shareholding in the Schmidt Peterson Racing IndyCar team ahead of the 2020 season - which now races as Arrow McLaren. It has also diversified its interests by extending its reach into electric racing, setting up an Extreme E ... Keep reading
Half as entertaining as the title, Shantanu Bagchi’s spy thriller, starring Siddharth Malhotra and Rashmika Mandanna, evokes more yawns than wows
Coming into 2023, Honda has refreshed its rider line-up, with ex-Suzuki riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins joining it factory team and satellite LCR squad respectively, while Marquez has enjoyed a trouble-free winter. In its race department back in Japan and within the race team itself, Honda has also gone through a reshuffle, with the signing of a key name in ex-Suzuki technical chief Ken ... Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier is yet to beaten in Monte Carlo this year, having won the five stages to date. The feat was made even more impressive given the Toyota driver was without hybrid boost for two of the three stages this morning. Ogiers advantage heading into the afternoon loop has ballooned to 32.7s after Evans suffered a right -ear puncture on Stage 5, which dropped him from ... Keep reading