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Ferrari Formula 1 technical director Enrico Cardile has been approached by Aston Martin over a possible switch to the team. Aston Martin team owner Lawrence Stroll is continuing his push to turn his Silverstone-based squad into winners. An earlier, p

Leading Formula 1 drivers are calling for changes to the red-flag tyre rules in the wake of an uneventful Monaco Grand Prix. Last month’s race was red-flagged on lap one after a crash involving Sergio Perez and both Haas drivers. Under the stoppage a

Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds has hinted that the series has held talks with Ferrari over the Italian marque joining the all-electric championship in some capacity. Discussions have arisen as Ferrari prepares this month to open its first electrification p

The World Rally Championship will return to the Middle East in 2025 following the announcement of a new 10-year deal with Saudi Arabia. The WRC has been eyeing a return for some time to the region, which it last visited in 2011 for Rally Jordan. Rall

BMW has taken the wraps of the evolution version of its M4 GT3 racer due to come on stream next season. The updates to a car that was released to customers for the 2022 season are focused upon driveability and feature revised aerodynamics, including

Formula Regional cars from the Middle East championship have been selected to contest the inaugural running of the Macau Grand Prix for the category this November. The FIA announced at the end of last month that the race would no longer be run for Fo

Marc Marquez is to return to a factory MotoGP team in 2025, with Ducati deciding to give the eight-time world champion the seat over Jorge Martin. Ducati looked set to promote Martin – the 2023 runner-up and current championship leader – from the Pra

British IndyCar rookie Tom Blomqvist has been benched by Meyer Shank Racing following his first-corner shunt in the Indy 500. He was replaced for last weekend’s Detroit round by four-time 500 winner Helio Castroneves, who stayed on in the cockpit fol

Street racing could return to the Midlands next year after the World Rallycross Championship announced that it has entered discussions with the organisers of MotoFest Coventry and is targeting an event from 2025. A proposed layout has already been dr

Mercedes junior Doriane Pin has stood down from her drive with the Iron Dames Lamborghini LMGT3 squad at the Le Mans 24 Hours with rib injuries that forced her to miss the second part of the Formula Regional European by Alpine doubleheader at Spa at

NASCAR Cup Series heavyweight Stewart-Haas Racing is pulling out of competition at the end of 2024. The team ran co-owner Tony Stewart to the title in 2011, and Kevin Harvick took the crown in 2014. But after winning 26 races from 2018-20, it has bee

Esteban Ocon is on the Formula 1 driver market for the 2025 season after Alpine decided not to renew the Frenchman’s expiring contract. Amid a tough start to the season for the struggling team, Ocon had already been exploring alternative options for

Length 2.710 miles Number of laps 70 Friday 7 June FP1 1830 FP2 2200 Saturday 8 June FP3 1730 QUALIFYING 2100 Sunday 9 June RACE 1900 CATCH THE RACE LIVE SKY SPORTS F1 BBC RADIO 5 LIVE TV Highlights CHANNEL 4 0020 (Monday) 2023 POLE POSITION Max Vers

Five-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Emanuele Pirro has been installed as the new president of the FIA Single Seater Commission. The 62-year-old Italian (left), who recently left McLaren, where he headed up the team’s junior driver programme, replaces e

This might shock you, but I really enjoyed the Monaco Grand Prix. The reason is it’s such an immense test of human concentration. Every driver has to be totally focused because one tiny error can put them out of the race. There’s no other sporting co

Even before he took himself out of the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix in an aggressive swoop on team-mate Pierre Gasly, it had become clear that something had changed in Esteban Ocon’s relationship with Alpine. This is Ocon-Alpine – the sensational winning c

When the World Rally Championship chose Sardinia to trial its new 48-hour format, few could have predicted the concoction of drama, joy and heartbreak that conspired to produce the joint closest victory in series history. Two tenths of a second – it’

Sami Pajari managed to tame Sardinia’s brutal gravel stages to claim a second career WRC2 win and ignite his title aspirations. Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen bounced back from a disappointing retirement in Portugal in style as the pair took a co

When all around is chaos during an IndyCar street race, the smart money goes on two drivers: Scott Dixon and Marcus Ericsson. Add extreme fuel saving into the equation, and there’s only one winner – and that’s six-time series champion and now 58-time

Briton Louis Foster took pole and led every lap to capture victory in Detroit and move closer to the Indy NXT championship lead as other title contenders struggled. Andretti Global driver Foster was thrust into safeguarding the top spot on multiple r

The Scherer Sport PHX Audi team won the 52nd edition of the Nurburgring 24 Hours with Frank Stippler, Christopher Mies, Ricardo Feller and Dennis Marschall, in what will be remembered as an extremely unsatisfactory race for the 240,000 spectators. A

ROUND 5/11 When the green flag waved to commence Saturday’s 100-minute IMSA SportsCar race on the streets of downtown Detroit, two teams and manufacturers with strong local ties seemed almost certain to sweep the honours. Porsche Penske Motorsport an

ROUND 3/8 TOM’S Toyota duo Ukyo Sasahara and Giuliano Alesi scored their maiden Super GT win in last weekend’s third round of the season at Suzuka. Victory for their GR Supra ended a poor run of form for both drivers, who had finished no better than

ROUND 15/36 Austin Cindric picked up a surprise NASCAR Cup victory last Sunday when his Team Penske Ford stablemate Ryan Blaney ran out of fuel in the final laps. Blaney, the reigning series champion, looked primed to pick up his first win of the 202

ROUND 7/21 Reigning title holder Francesco Bagnaia was in impeccable form throughout the Italian Grand Prix weekend, clinching a double win on his home turf to slash Jorge Martin’s championship lead by more than half. Bagnaia had already made it clea

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Over 30 Lotus Elan 26Rs are set to take part in a celebration contest from Equipe Classic Racing at Silverstone this weekend for the model’s 60th birthday. A total of 34 of the Elans had entered at the time Autosport closed for press, with Equipe als

Tin-top ace Steve Soper is among the entries for the first round of a shortened schedule for the Historic Sports Car Club’s new Touring Car Legends series at Donington Park this weekend. The category’s inaugural season was originally due to feature f

The 50th anniversary of Pilbeam Racing was celebrated at Curborough last week. Several machines were on display, including the 1977 F1 LEC designed by Mike Pilbeam. Some machines took to the course, including the 1172 Formula Virage (left) of 1961 dr

Four-time British GT champion Jonny Adam has played down his chances of a fifth overall title in 2024 due to the pace of his Blackthorn Aston Martin Vantage. Adam narrowly lost out on another championship last year when driving a 2 Seas Mercedes alon

Around 70 entries are expected across two Mini 7 Racing Club grids as its categories make their latest appearance at Thruxton in support of the British Touring Car Championship this weekend. Each of the Miglia and Se7ens fields are due to feature ove

The Racing4Charity karting event in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association will return to Thruxton after a one-year break, featuring a star-studded line-up. The two-hour event, organised by ex-Formula 1 driver David Brabham and Bill Williams, w

Organisers of the Classic Sports Car Club’s Midget & Sprite Challenge believe even further growth is possible after a 29-car entry at Silverstone last weekend was its highest turnout for more than a decade. Now in its 48th season, the championship sw

We’ve just had the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500, which can mean only one thing. It’s time for the third of motorsport’s Big Three events: the Le Mans 24 Hours. We’ve got our traditional free 52-page guide this week, covering all the contend

US muscle cars from Ford and Chevrolet will go head to head in two special races at this weekend’s American SpeedFest, with a diverse range of machines set to take part. A points-scoring system has been devised for the two 20-minute Ford vs Chevy con

Alastair Boulton’s Praga R1T topped the times for last weekend’s closed-roads sprint at the 10th anniversary edition of MotoFest Coventry. Despite initially having trouble getting off the line as the car normally does rolling starts, he set the faste

A new series aimed at cars competing in the Brands Hatch Mini Festival’s annual Fastest Mini in the World races kicked off at Silverstone last weekend. The Ultimate Mini Racing Series is sharing a grid with the Classic Sports Car Club’s Special Saloo

Paul Cook (E46 M3) claimed a brace of overall and Class M1 victories in the BMW Car Club Racing Championship in front of a large BMW Live crowd at Oulton Park last Saturday, repeating his double victory from Donington Park. He finished ahead of Wayne

The new-look Clio Cup GB series launched at Brands Hatch last Saturday with just six entries, three of them the latest Gen5 machines, with three Gen4 models running in a guest class. A small field on the full Grand Prix circuit diminished the spectac

Andy Southcott bounced back from losing out in a dramatic conclusion to last Saturday’s first Special Saloons & Modsports race at Silverstone with a stirring drive to win the second. Fifty years since the launch of Super Saloons (see p68), pioneer Mi

Robbie Dalgleish carved a sizeable chunk out of Jason Ballantyne’s Scottish Mini Cooper Cup points lead after a near-perfect weekend at Knockhill. The championship only raced on Saturday, running the anti-clockwise version of the Fife circuit on a we

Race 1 James Plant (Austin-Healey 3000-Chevrolet) Race 2 Andy Southcott (MG Lenham Midget-Vauxhall) Race 1 Jack Robinson (Jaguar XK) Race 2 Colin Philpott (Jaguar XJS) Races 1 & 2 Paul Sibley (Midget) Malcolm Johnson (Lotus Elan GTS, above) Stephen P

Hitech’s Tymek Kucharczyk moved into the lead of the GB3 Championship after his “best weekend” in the series at Spa, where the Pole secured a brace of wins. He claimed victory in Saturday’s two races, the first one in particularly dominant style, and

When the popular Ingliston circuit on the outskirts of Edinburgh closed in 1994, Scottish motorsport was dealt a crucial blow. Already suffering from fewer resources than its siblings south of the border, it now had to make do with a single venue for

Race 1 (8 laps) 1 Tymek Kucharczyk; 2 John Bennett +1.811s; 3 Louis Sharp; 4 Ugo Ugochukwu; 5 Will Macintyre; 6 Noah Ping. Fastest lap Macintyre 2m31.115s (103.70mph). Pole Kucharczyk. Starters 22. Race 2 (7 laps) 1 Kucharczyk; 2 Bennett +0.452s; 3 S

A dramatic day of hillclimbing played out under the sunshine last Sunday at Shelsley Walsh, and through it all Alex Summers kept a cool head to drive a perfect weekend and claim two more British Hillclimb Championship victories. However, the other bi

Max Verstappen’s sim racing exploits once again hit the headlines last month, when the Dutchman combined winning the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix with achieving virtual Nurburgring 24 Hours glory over the same – very hectic – weekend. And another driver

Last Saturday’s Classic Sports Car Club Mick Hill Trophy races at Silverstone turned the clocks back 50 years to the birth of Britain’s Super Saloon movement he and Tony Hazlewood masterminded in 1974. Hill and Hazlewood loved brawny American V8 engi

Bernie Collins RRP £22.00 Formula 1 nerds, rejoice, for in How to win a Grand Prix, Bernie Collins delivers a level of insight that digs deep into the complex world of the championship and delights in the details. There’s a lot of reading material av

F1 World Championship Round 9/24 Montreal, Canada 9 June Live Sky Sports F1, Sun 1855 Highlights Sky Sports F1, Sun 2230, Channel 4, Mon 0020 Round 7/15 Road America, USA 9 June Live Sky Sports Mix, Sun 2030 Round 5/12 Road America, USA 9 June Live S

autosport.com/podcast This week we welcome Greg Maffei onto the James Allen on F1 podcast. Maffei is the CEO of Liberty Media, and the man who had his eye on F1 for many years before he bought it. F1 has changed a lot in the seven years since, bringi

A young Jochen Rindt raises a fist as he perches precariously on the front of the Ferrari 250LM in which he has shared victory in the 1965 Le Mans 24 Hours. His partner Masten Gregory and most of the car are hidden from view by the mass of North Amer

There were times during the 1960s and 1970s when Formula 1 machines weren’t always the fastest cars in the world around a road course. Big-banger sportscars sometimes grabbed that accolade, and few provided bigger bangs than the machines of the Canad

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The much-discussed new ‘golden age’ of sportscar racing has definitely arrived. We reckon there are at least 14 genuine contenders for outright victory at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, and the field arrives following a first win in the modern era by

Joest Racing had won the Le Mans 24 Hours for Porsche in 1996 after doing a deal to run its pair of stillborn WSC95 LMP prototypes. Good job the arrangement allowed it to keep the winning car. Fast forward 12 months, and it didn’t have a lot of optio

Joest Racing had upheld Porsche honour at Le Mans in 1984 when the Rothmans factory cars stayed away over a dispute concerning the future direction of the fuel rules for Group C. But then there were plenty of other customers to do that: Porsche 956s

Sportscar racing was in the doldrums at the back end of the 1970s. The Group 5 silhouette GT formula hadn’t taken off as expected, and there was waning interest in the Group 6 prototype category. Porsche only dusted off its 936 design because it had

Alpine produced its most competitive World Endurance Championship performance with its new A424 LMDh at Spa, but that’s not reflected by the results. The ORECA-based car’s best finish remains the seventh place earned on its debut in Qatar thanks to c

The F1 GTR wasn’t the first McLaren to venture out on the hallowed asphalt of the Circuit de la Sarthe during Le Mans week. But 1995 was the race debut for the marque in the 24 Hours because the only previous attempt on the race by one of its cars en

Everyone remembers McLaren’s winning debut at Le Mans in 1995, but a run of top-six results continued as the F1 race project wound down. Two long-tail McLaren F1 GTRs were on the entry for the 24 Hours in 1998, and one of them came away with fourth p

The top class brings together bespoke Le Mans Hypercars (four-wheel-drive hybrids and front-axle hybrids in the case of Isotta) that have been eligible to race at Le Mans since 2021, plus the LMDh prototypes that debuted last year. These are based on

That’s probably the most annoying place to be overtaken in a GT car because you lose some front downforce, don’t get the good line and lose speed all the way down the straight. This makes it harder for us to overtake the GTs – because they don’t like

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