Aston Martin have appointed Mike Krack as their new team boss, and are confident the ex-BMW chief will help deliver on their lofty long-term goals of Formula 1 world championships.
It was confirmed today that Penske will run the full WEC season in 2022with an ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2 car, ahead of the teams WEC-IMSA effots with Porsches LMDh in 2023. It will mark the first time Penske has competed at the Le Mans 24 Hours since Mark Donohue and David Hobbs drove the teams Ferrari 512M but retired early. The drivers for Penskes LMP2 effort will be 2018 and ... Keep reading
Honda will once again field five cars in Super GTs top GT500 class, with Team Kunimitsu, ARTA, Real Racing, Nakajima Racing and Team Mugen all entering a single car each. Its new challenger will be based on the limited-edition Type S version of the NSX road car, which has been spied in testing but has yet to be officially unveiled. The only change in the driver line-up is the arrival of ... Keep reading
Like Percat, Slater is a new recruit for the Walkinshaw Andretti United squad, joining from the recently-sold Team Sydney. He adds to an already-stacked engineering line-up at Clayton led by Carl Faux, with Grant McPherson then directly overseeing race engineers Adam De Borre and Slater. Its fantastic to have someone of Geoffs calibre joining us for 2022, and Im really excited ... Keep reading
Weve selected some of the most outrageous and, in a few cases, ridiculous cars ever to go into competition for our Monsters of Motorsport special. It is a look at some of the cars that can impress and entertain even if they are going around a circuit (or rally stage) all on their own. There were many candidates for inclusion, so weve largely focused on the cars that were dramatic and ... Keep reading
Formula 1 fans have been offered a tantalising first glimpse into 2022's all-new era, with teams beginning to tease the dramatically different cars that could transform the sport and the competition on track.
The 42-year-old retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season, bring to an end a 26-year career in grand prix motorcycle racing that yielded nine world titles across 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP classes and 115 total grand prix victories. Rossi repeatedly stated last year that he would switch to GT racing at the end of his MotoGP career, having previously contested the Gulf 12 Hours in a Kessel ... Keep reading
Johnny Herbert, Damon Hill and Martin Brundle debate whether or not Michael Masi can stay in his position as the FIA's Formula One race director.
The Honda rider missed the final two rounds of the 2021 MotoGP season after a concussion he suffered in a training accident damaged a nerve in his eye and led to a return of the double vision or diplopia problems he experienced back in 2011. Marquezs racing career was threatened at the end of 2011 when a crash during the Malaysian Moto2 Grand Prix weekend resulted in him suffering ... Keep reading
Bruce McLarens firm made its F1 world championship debut in 1966 and the New Zealander scored its maiden victory in the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. Since then, 19 other drivers have taken wins for McLaren and seven have won drivers titles. PLUS: The numbers that reveal McLaren's revival For the selection of the top 10 McLaren F1 drivers, Autosport has considered the amount of success the ... Keep reading
After near-misses in the previous two years, Al-Attiyah led the 44th running of Dakar from start to finish in the new Toyota Hilux T1+, eventually taking the top honours by 27m46s over Sebastien Loeb (Prodrive-Bahrain). The Qatari driver won only two of the 12 stages, both in the first week, but showed remarkable consistency throughout the rally-raid, while his rivals fell by the wayside with ... Keep reading
It was the kind of information that fans had been eagerly waiting for, and while it did not offer any concrete answers, it at least outlined the state of play and the possible timeline for any decisions and, more importantly, action. Newly-appointed FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem spoke earlier this month of the need to be proactive, not reactive when it came to addressing the ... Keep reading
Villeneuve has spent Tuesday and Wednesday at Daytona International Speedway driving the #27 Ford in the Next Gen test for Team Hezeberg, a new Cup team this season formed between racing legend Toine Hezemans and Dutch entrepreneur Ernst Berg. Loris Hezemans, the 2019 NASCAR Euro champion, plans to compete in all the road course events on the Cup schedule in 2022, but is not yet approved for ... Keep reading
The 2022 driver market has had new life breathed into it by the sale of Team Sydney to successful businessman and drag racer Peter Xiberras. The former Tekno Autosports squad is now facing a ground-up rebuild, which means neither of its 2021 drivers, Fabian Coulthard and Garry Jacobson, are guaranteed to continue this season, as was long expected. Speculation regarding drivers has been in ... Keep reading
Honda announced in October 2020 that it would pull out of F1 after the 2021 season, with partner team Red Bull moving the engine production in-house at its Milton Keynes campus for the power units used by both Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri. While Honda will aid Red Bull with its power unit, Honda's F1 director Masashi Yamamoto previously stated the development "will be totally controlled by ... Keep reading
The new car ran at the German manufacturer's Weissach test track within the development complex at which its motorsport headquarters are based with Frenchman Frederic Makowiecki at the wheel on Friday. The Porsche hybrid is understood to have completed multiple laps in what was a delayed roll-out for a car that will bring the marque back to the pinnacle of sportscar racing for the first time ... Keep reading
Ed Carpenter Racing has announced it has signed Conor Daly as a full-time driver in its #20 car for the 2022 IndyCar season. Daly, who drove the #20 car at the road and street courses during the past two seasons while team owner Ed Carpenter contested the ovals, will now take over the entry for the entire 2022 season. Daly's future at the team was thrown up in the air when ECR lost its ... Keep reading
Sainz was never threatened in the 346km loop near Bisha since he grabbed the lead at the third waypoint from Overdrives Lucio Alvarez - the Spaniard successfully tackling the soft dunes towards the end of the stage en route to a comfortable 3m10s victory. This was Sainzs second stage win in the Dakar this year and the fourth for Audis new hybrid RS Q e-tron contender. The result ... Keep reading
Once the 2021 Formula 1 season draws to a close, attention will immediately turn to preparations for 2022s all-new rules. F1 will receive one of its biggest technical overhauls for next season, with a seismic shift in the aerodynamic regulations, which should act as a soft reset for all of the teams in the championship. The new regulations have been paired with a number of changes to the ... Keep reading
Wickens has been rehabilitating since his brutal accident in IndyCars race at Pocono in August 2018, in which he suffered a thoracic spinal fracture, spinal cord injury, neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, fractures in both hands, a fractured right forearm, fractured elbow, a concussion, four fractured ribs and a pulmonary contusion. Almost 1000 days later, in May last ... Keep reading
A full-season deal with the Italian squad follows the Australian's cameo at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi late last year. He was 10th fastest on the first of the three days despite having no experience in F2. Williams' promotion to F2 follows two seasons in Formula 3 with Jenzer Motorsport, the 2021 campaign yielding his first podium and 19th place in the points. "I'm extremely proud ... Keep reading
As Formula 1s driver market silly season wound down in 2021 and this years grid fell into place, Alfa Romeo left it late to finalise its line-up. Talks with Andretti over a possible takeover of the Sauber Group postponed a final decision on who would partner the incoming Valtteri Bottas in 2022. But the eventual collapse of talks meant that Guanyu Zhou clinched the seat to complete ... Keep reading
Ahead of the series third season, it will stage a test at the Inde Motorsports Ranch between 31 January and 4 February using US specification F4 cars. The all-female championship staged its first-ever round outside of Europe last October at the Circuit of the Americas in support of the US Grand Prix, holding a double-header season finale. Drivers attending the test include 2020 Britcar ... Keep reading
It was less than four months ago, during an interview at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Wilson said, Were all behind, when it came to the development and testing of the new car. At that point, NASCAR had conducted just one multi-car test at Daytona International Speedway, and that produced a list of new issues, including driver cockpit overheating and problems with the cars ... Keep reading
Alpine have confirmed the latest F1 management shake-up during the 2022 pre-season, parting company with executive director Marcin Budkowski.