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Engineer Pat Symonds has joined the Andretti Global organisation as the American firm presses ahead with its nascent grand prix programme. Andretti’s bid to enter Formula 1 in 2025 or 2026 was rejected by grand prix bosses in January, but the Michael

Sources say that the formation of the new commercial agreement between grand prix teams and F1’s owner Liberty Media could put a limit on the cash boost historically earned by Ferrari. Each team gets a split of the revenue generated by grand prix rac

Outgoing Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz says he will make a rapid choice about his grand prix future as rumours emerged over the Monaco Grand Prix weekend linking the Spaniard to a seat at Williams for 2025. The 29-year-old will be replaced at the Scude

Bulgarian driver Nikola Tsolov claimed victory in a dramatic FIA Formula 3 sprint race at Monaco last weekend in a race that was blighted by a red flag. ART man Tsolov took the initiative from the start but the event was quickly halted in a multi-car

Josef Newgarden became the first back-to-back winner at the Indy 500 in more than two decades by producing a dramatic last-gasp pass on Pato O’Ward’s McLaren machine to seal the silverware. The Tennessee driver, who had started on the front row for

Antonio Felix da Costa took his second win in two events as Formula E returned to race in China for the first time since 2019 last weekend, while fellow recent winner Mitch Evans also continued his strong form. Porsche driver da Costa claimed the sec

Reigning outright CityCar Cup champion Elliot Lettis has joined the championship’s Student Motorsport Challenge intra-category with City College Norwich starting with joining last Saturday’s record Oulton Park 14-car student entry. Lettis has joine

DTO Motorsport returned to British GT last weekend at Donington Park with race-winning pair Freddie Tomlinson and Stuart Middleton driving a Ginetta G56 GT4 Evo. Tomlinson and 2017 champion Middleton competed in British GT4 in a Raceway Ginetta last

The Midget and Sprite Challenge is set for its biggest grid in years this Saturday at Silverstone with 30 cars entered as Motorsport News went to press. The long-time MG Car Club category, in its 48th year, switched to Classic Sports Car Club for 202

Porsche Carrera Cup GB race winner Angus Whiteside is poised to return to the contest next weekend at Thruxton following his spectacular barrel-roll exit at Brands Hatch earlier this month. The Century racer won Brands’ opener outright, even though

Sam Kirkpatrick returned to the Civic Cup championship 10 days ago at Snetterton’s round two after a Brands Hatch season-opener smash left him unsure whether he would continue. The 23-year-old MG Trophy champion starting his intended first full Civic

Inaugural British Racing and Sports Car Club Fiesta Junior scholarship winner Daniella Sutton has switched from the Pro Alloys team to 20Ten Racing ahead of Snetterton’s recent 2024 round two. Sutton, who races with arthritis and beat over 50 drivers

Petter Solberg has recalled his victory on the first Sardinia-based Rally Italy in 2004 by highlighting the role his pacenotes played. Delivered by his long-term Welsh wingman Phil Mills, Solberg’s pacenotes were always regarded as being packed with

Oliver Solberg’s bid to win Royal Rally of Scandinavia is dependent on the WRC2 frontrunner securing the necessary cash. Petter Solberg’s 22-year-old son is understood to be keen on a going for back-to-back victories alongside British co-driver Ell

This week’s Rally Italy will follow a condensed format in a move that could be repeated by other World championship events from next season. Organisers of the Sardinia-based round have been given dispensation by the FIA to trial a new-look format. Ra

Young rally pairing Jacob Neal and Russell Thompson achieved their ambition of finishing the Manx Rally in their Mini Cooper R53 despite a major off on the final stage of the opening day. This was their first closed-road rally, a first time making th

The organisers of the Kielder Forest Rally are still hoping to attract more entries before entries close at the end of this week. The June 15 rally in the central block of Kielder is round four of the Protyre BTRDA Rally Series but has struggled fo

Jonathan Mounsey and Richard Wardle had a wild ride when their Ford Fiesta R5 crashed out of the Jim Clark Rally early in the second Edrom stage on Saturday. They were 38th overall when they slid wide and crashed over a wall. The Fiesta stayed the ri

A celebration of 50 years of rallying for Jimmy McRae will be one of the key themes at this year’s RallydayXL at Castle Combe. Now extended to a two-day event over the weekend of September 28-29, Rallyday will honour McRae’s incredible 50 years in th

The organisers of the Pendragon Stages Rally have confirmed that the popular asphalt event will go ahead this year at, s planned on Sunday, August 25. The event, which is based on the military roads near Warcop in West Cumbria, has had a troubled r

Aberystwyth Motorsport has added a Ford Fiesta Rally2 to its hire fleet alongside its existing Ford Escort Mk2s. Team boss Richard Owen Morgans gave the Rally2 car a debut run at Anglesey recently for his first experience of rallying a four-wheel-dri

Regular stage rally competitors Darren Moon and Sam Spencer came together to win the Ryemoor Trophy as the Yorkshire road rally returned after a four-year sabbatical. Moon and Spencer took victory by over four minutes from Shaun Bee and Simon Bentley

Ian Clare gave a debut to his gorgeous Wolseley Hornet on the Manx Rally after a long project to build up what is thought to be the only example running in special stage rallying. “It’s been absolutely fraught,” said Clare of the project. “We started

Modsports veteran John Pugsley has joined the Historic Modsports and Special Saloons grid in a Davrian Mk6, 45 years after he last raced a Davrian. The Imp-engined car that Pugsley ran at Cadwell Park recently has been built up around a new tub that

The Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula 3 races at the Thruxton Historic on June 22-23 will be for the Chris Moore Memorial Trophy, remembering a leading driver from the one-litre Formula 3 era. The fabulous one-litre F3 cars will be racing a

Nicholas Pearce raced at Cadwell Park for the first time in 20 years recently in his Historic Formula 3 U2 Mk4. It was also half a century on from his first race at the Lincolnshire circuit. Back in the spring of 1974, Pearce made his race debut in t

Swede Isak Sjokvist has re-signed with Hansen Motorsport’s junior team Yellow Squad for the 2024 RX2e series that supports the World Rallycross Championship. Last year, Sjokvist took the title-fight in the single-specification all-electric four-wheel

Vinnie Neath-Rogers took a career-first BriSCA Formula 2 final victory at Mendips Raceway, while Charlie Guinchard and Greg McKenzie split the honours in the weekend’s two shale meetings. A very wet track in the Mendip hills near Bristol suited Neath

Former Junior rallycross driver Corey Padgett says he is more determined than ever to score a strong result following a mixed opening phase of the BTRDA Clubmans Rallycross Championship season. Padgett, who represented the UK at the 2022 World Motor

The Circuit des Ducs circuit in Essay, France has undergone what its British owner describes as significant changes ahead of its return to the international stage and the European Championship season-opener next week. The historic venue, which was

The long straights and high-speed corners of Snetterton have traditionally been a boon for BMWs. That proved the case again last weekend in the third meeting of the British Touring Car Championship season, but it was the form of Jake Hill that was he

Tyres were the talk of the weekend with teams trying to use the weather to avoid running the hard compound. During the course of the meeting, BTCC organiser TOCA issued a bulletin confirming that the hard tyre had to be used in the next available dry

Round 7 Laps: 12 Track: Damp but drying 11 Ronan Pearson S (Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N) +26.880s; 12 Aron Taylor-Smith (Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra) +29.528s; 13 Mikey Doble (Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra) 33.585s; 14 Josh Cook (5) H

I’ve had easier weekends in the British Touring Car Championship, I won’t lie. It was hard at Snetterton and there was no obvious reason. We seemed to struggle for balance in qualifying but, in fairness, the fact that it was wet for so much of Saturd

Kyle McBride notched up his first Junior British Rally Championship win of the season after an epic scrap with fellow Donegal man Ryan MacHugh. It was a Peugeot vs Ford battle in the Rally4 class, as JBRC debutant MacHugh proved his eye-catching spee

A sensational run on the final stage allowed Euan Thorburn and Paul Beaton to steal victory from the grasp of David Henderson and Chris Williams in a Jim Clark Reivers Rally thriller. Repeating their titanic tussle of 12 months earlier, where Thorbu

Mark Radcliffe’s performance in taking his Optimum McLaren to second place alongside Tom Gamble was done despite still carrying injuries from his hefty Silverstone crash. He told Motorsport News: “Getting in the car both mentally and physically has b

Who said that lightning doesn’t strike twice? British GT followed up a crazy, wet-dry and corkscrew-plotted three-hour caper in the Silverstone 500 last month with another one, at Donington Park last weekend. This time Alex Martin and Sandy Mitchell

Linus Granfors extended his points advantage at GB4’s table top across Donington Park’s triple header, and claimed a joint record as he did so, but Brandon McCaughan took the most points from Leicestershire and climbed to third in the standings. Fort

Henry Joslyn claimed the Ginetta Junior points lead by taking two wins at Donington Park. He inherited the first of those triumphs post-race after Chase Fernandez was demoted to second for pushing Joslyn off the road at Coppice following a feisty doo

Round 3: Donington Park, GT3 11 Andrew Howard/Jessica Hawkins (Beechdean AMR/Aston Martin Vantage AMR Evo) +41.007s; 12 Carl Cavers/Lewis Plato (Century Motorsport/BMW M4) +1m32.051s*; 13 Richard Neary/Sam Neary (Team Abba Racing/Mercedes-AMG Evo) -

Alex Summers was the big star of the Gurston Down weekend in this year’s British Hillclimb Championship. On a weekend when the weather once again dealt the championship a blow, Summers won twice and finished second once in the three runoffs that wer

It’s nice to get the monkey off my back of getting my first Indy NXT podium, at the Indianapolis road course recently. We’ve had good speed this year and have been on for good results but hadn’t been able to convert it, so I would have pulled your ar

On Saturday Martin Brundle reaches his milestone 65th birthday. He’s primarily associated with Formula 1 – both as a driver and in recent decades as a celebrated commentator – but he’s done plenty else besides, not least in sportscar competition. And

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