Ahead of this season, the American squad finished assembling its car in Bahrain ahead of the start of pre-season testing as the chassis was basically unchanged from 2020. But with a rules overhaul for next season meaning teams will have all-new cars, Haas will finish assembling it in the Dallara factory in Italy before flying to Barcelona for the first of two tests. Haas team principal ... Keep reading
With the championship battle between F1s top two teams having gone to the wire in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, tensions between Red Bull boss Christian Horner and Mercedes chief Toto Wolff erupted as the season neared its end. The level of animosity between the pair spilled over at times to them getting involved in clashes in FIA press conferences or in the media. While the pair did shake ... Keep reading
The 27-year-old will line up alongside Porsche Carrera Cup GB champion and 2019-20 BTCC title contender Dan Cammish in the two-car NAPA superteam in what Sutton describes as a multi-year deal. Motorbase will also continue to run two-time BTCC race winner Ollie Jackson and Sam Osborne, son of team owner Pete Osborne, in its other two Focuses. Sutton won his 2020 and 2021 titles in ... Keep reading
For a club racing season that began with such uncertainty, the end result was an unexpected surprise. With the coronavirus pandemic leading to the familiar scenario of events being cancelled at the start of the year, there was concern about what 2021 had in store. Many feared the real economic impact of COVID-19 would bite this year, after the initial shock in 2020. And yet the season ended ... Keep reading
Grand prix racings chiefs have always tried to give the impression that they are doing their best to manage the difficulties those that working in the pitlane face. However, as F1s calendar looks set to explode even more in the future, and triple-headers are now the norm, many within the paddock have expressed some private concerns that they are not being listened to, as things look set ... Keep reading
Schumacher will enter his second season in 2022 with Haas, having graduated to F1 this year as a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy. The 2020 Formula 2 champion, he is the son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, who won five titles with Ferrari in the early 2000s. While Schumacher will be racing full-time for Haas, he will act as Ferraris reserve for 11 races next season. It ... Keep reading
The 2018 Indy Lights title rivals won five IndyCar races between them last season, with the former remaining in title contention until the final round at Long Beach where his Arrow McLaren SP entry was an early retirement. The pair will team up with Herta's 2022 Andretti Autosport IndyCar team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco and sportscar stalwart Eric Lux for the IMSA curtain-raiser, which doesn't ... Keep reading
The British marque will be represented in the new GT3-based division by The Heart of Racing, which will enter a pair of Vantage GT3s split between the GTD Pro and GTD categories next year. Factory Aston driver Ross Gunn will partner Alex Riberas for the full season in the GTD Pro entry, joined by World Endurance Championship ace Maxime Martin for the four Michelin Endurance Cup events ... Keep reading
As cool asOpmeerlikes to portray himself, there must have been a lot running through his mind as a second F1 Esports Series Pro title hung in the balance. A dramaticrace at Imolahad effectively ruled underdog Lucas Blakeley out of championship contention.Mexicoconfirmed this possibility as fact. Now, with the teams championship wrapped up for ... Keep reading
The Williams driver crashed into the wall at Turn 14 with six laps remaining at the Yas Marina Circuit, resulting in a safety car that would help decide the championship. Race director Michael Masi opted to resume the race with one lap remaining, during which Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton to win both the race and the title. In an open letter he posted to social media on Tuesday, the ... Keep reading
The British squad has revealed that it will field a pair of McLaren 720S GT3s in the two-weekend Asian Le Mans Series in February and will continue with the new cars for further GT3 campaigns through the year that will be announced at a later date. Garage 59 team principal Andrew Kirkaldy said: Garage 59 has a rich history with McLaren and its great to be back with them for 2022. "The ... Keep reading
Patterson, 18, claimed a podium during a limited programme in the GB3 Championship this season, before making an eye-opening one-off debut in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine at Spa, where he finished seventh from a 33-car field. The former international karting star and Sauber Academy driver competed in Formula 4 in 2020, in the UAE and Italy. Pattersons surprise move ... Keep reading
The actual Brandon in the Lets go Brandon! chant that went viral after a NASCAR race finally opened up about the chant in a Newsweek article. A crowd chant which was incorrectly identified as Lets go Brandon! after Brandon Brown earned his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series race victory in early October quickly went viral [] NASCAR driver finally opens up on Lets go Brandon! - Beyond the Flag - Beyond the Flag - Your #1 D
Honda returned to the sport in 2015 as an engine manufacturer with McLaren but suffered a disastrous start with underperforming and unreliable engines, which had to be designed to fit McLaren tight packaging. The partnership proved to be a major embarrassment for the proud Japanese company, with soundbites such as Fernando Alonso's "GP2 engine" comment doing little to improve relations. A ... Keep reading
As part of the rules aimed to help F1 get through the financial difficulties triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, teams were forced to carry over their 2020 chassis in to this year. However, they were allowed to make limited upgrades which were restricted to the spending of two tokens that were weighted depending on how significant a part of the car was involved. Mercedes was quite ... Keep reading
Nine-time world champion, Loeb, has been heavily linked to a return to the WRC having tested M-Sports new Rally1 Puma hybrid twice in Spain and France in October and November respectively. Talks between Loeb, sponsors and the team have been ongoing for months before a deal was finally reached to allow the 47-year-old to pilot a fourth Puma for next months season opener. PLUS: How WRC ... Keep reading
Solberg will team up with British navigator Elliott Edmondson for the upcoming campaign that will see the pair drive Hyundai's third Rally1 hybrid i20 in rotation with veteran Dani Sordo. Edmondson sat alongside the 20-year-old for the first time at last month's Rally Monza, where the duo finished fifth - the best result of Solbergs short WRC career to date. Having previously partnered ... Keep reading
The WRCs most successful driver is set to make a comeback to the championship next month having secured a deal with M-Sport Ford to drive a fourth Puma Rally1 at the famous Monte Carlo event, which he's won seven times previously. Loeb is only confirmed to contest one rally at this stage but the team hasnt ruled out further appearances. The nine-time world champion will be partnered ... Keep reading
Petruccis 10-year career in MotoGP is a true rags to riches story, the Italian starting out on the underfunded and woefully off-the-pace Ioda CRT machine in 2012 before eventually getting a factory seat at Ducati in 2019. The Italian won two races in 2019 and 2020 for Ducati before an unfruitful switch to Tech3 KTM this year, with Petrucci losing his place for 2022. Petrucci proved to be ... Keep reading
The election of a new FIA president is a rare occurrence, when you consider that only Jean Todt and Max Mosley have served in the role since 1991. So for 30 years the entire span of many motorsport fans followership of the sport these two giants have been at the helm. It is in that context that we have to approach the election of Mohammed ben Sulayem of the UAE, a former multiple ... Keep reading
Back in October, the German series announced a nine-round schedule with a 'TBA' venue on 3-5 June. However, this date has been scrapped from the latest draft calendar announced on Thursday following the end of championship promoter ITR's agreement with Assen. The move leaves the 2022 schedule with eight rounds - four in Germany and four at other European venues. Portimao is still set to ... Keep reading
Horner joined Red Bull as team principal in 2005 when the energy drink giant moved into F1 with its own team, overseeing five drivers championship wins and four constructors titles. The latest championship win came earlier this month when Max Verstappen clinched the title on the final lap of the season in Abu Dhabi, defeating Lewis Hamilton. Verstappen said after winning the race that ... Keep reading
There were many remarkable moments in motorsport in 2021. There were some great passing moves, incredible finishes and, of course, lots of controversy both on the track and behind closed doors. Weve picked out the best and worst moments in a special feature, an article that was in part inspired by an email to Autosport from 2016 Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg about his (newly ... Keep reading
Dallara first entered the top-flight of US single-seater racing back in 1997 and has been sole supplier since 2009, the year after the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series merged to form what is currently known as the IndyCar Series. The current chassis, originally called DW12 in honour of its test driver, the late Dan Wheldon, was first used in 2012 but has undergone several major ... Keep reading
Less than a fortnight on from the final round of the 2021 F1 campaign, the Brackley-based outfit published a short video on Thursday revealing the fire up of the new W13. The video showed staff at its factory overlooking the event, with Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff being kept up to date with developments via a live video link on a mobile phone. The images offered no further clues about the ... Keep reading