Motorsport

One of the main advantages that Red Bull exploited throughout last season was good aero efficiency, which made the car strong in a straightline.Its advantage increased when its DRS was opened, as the team had made the most of perfecting the drag ratio of its mainplane at the rear of the car and how it worked in conjunction with the beam wing.Other teams like McLaren did start going down the Red ...Keep reading

At the age of 24, Quartararo is now in his sixth season in MotoGP, a class in which he won the title in 2021 and in which he has always competed on a Yamaha.The Frenchman, whose contract with Yamaha expires at the end of 2024, has been demanding a reaction from the Iwata-based manufacturer for the last two years, but it has not been forthcoming.The M1 bike's lack of speed on a single lap, and its ...Keep reading

The ‘Craig Breen Spirit of Rallying Award’ will be awarded to the JWRC driver who, over the course of the season, best embodies Breen’s characteristics: a willingness to overcome adversity, an unwavering determination to take on every obstacle to complete every rally, and an outgoing positive demeanour in their interactions with fellow competitors, marshals and volunteers, media and their ...Keep reading

The Finn was in the running for a Rally1 seat with Hyundai for 2024 before the Korean manufacturer opted to share its third entry between Esapekka Lappi, Dani Sordo and new signing Andreas Mikkelsen.Suninen, whose best WRC finish to date came when he placed second for M-Sport on the 2019 Rally Sardinia, joined Hyundai’s revamped driver development programme in 2023 alongside Emil Lindholm.He was ...Keep reading

The Milton Keynes-based team is officially launching its 2024 challenger at an event at its factory on Thursday, and had hoped to keep the design secret until then, despite some early running.But despite world champion Max Verstappen’s first laps in the car on Tuesday being a strictly behind closed doors event, video footage taken by a spectator – most likely from the hotel opposite ...Keep reading

The upgrades brought during 2023 carried a similar aim but after the summer break, in Zandvoort, Sainz and Leclerc still needed to split their car set-ups to refine the tricky handling.A shift towards understeer thereafter favoured Sainz before late-season tweaks enabled Leclerc to score four pole positions and three podiums from the final six grands prix.Ferrari wants to pick up immediately from ...Keep reading

The Italian squad is heading into the 2024 season with a sense of reinvigoration following its capture over the winter of Lewis Hamilton for 2025.That high-profile signing is the culmination of what has been nicknamed 'Operation Relaunch' as Ferrari CEO John Elkann and team principal Fred Vasseur plot the Scuderia's route back to the front of the grid.In the SF-24, Ferrari hopes to make amends for ...Keep reading

The Franco-German will effectively step into the role that Tim Goss held until the end of last year, prior to his departure from the governing body as he moves to the RB squad.Monchaux will report directly to the FIA’s long-serving single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis, who has been with the organisation since 2018.He will be tasked with similar responsibilities to Goss and will play a key ...Keep reading

The Italian squad is aiming to take a step forward with this year's car to attempt to put an end to Max Verstappen and Red Bull's domination after they won all but one race during the 2023 season.Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will continue to drive for the Scuderia this year before the Spaniard - the only non-Red Bull driver to win a race last season - makes way for Lewis Hamilton in ...Keep reading

Le Mans 24 Hours winner Neel Jani and Porsche-contracted driver Julien Andlauer have been named in the car alongside Harry Tincknell on the 37-car entry list for the Qatar 1812Km WEC season-opener on 2 March. Jani has confirmed that he will again be a full-season driver in the car he raced from its debut at last year’s WEC round at Monza in July and it is expected that Proton regular Andlauer ...Keep reading

Repsol first joined forces with Honda in 1995, with its famous orange colours going on to become one of the most recognisable in the history of motorcycle racing.Repsol and Honda are entering the 30th year of their long-standing partnership, but the Spanish oil giant has scaled down its involvement in the wake of Marc Marquez’s departure to Gresini Ducati.This means that for the first time in 30 ...Keep reading

The Korean brand has opted to retire the sky blue colour scheme with which it started the season, and was driven to victory by Thierry Neuville in Monte Carlo last month, in favour of a completely new look.The new livery pays tribute to 10 years of Hyundai’s high performance ‘N’ road car brand, which now features prominently in the new orange, white and blue colours. The livery ties in with ...Keep reading

The Spaniard, who is currently 42, has already defied doubters who reckoned that F1 drivers would be long past their prime once they were out of their thirties.Now, as he ponders his next steps in F1 with his current Aston Martin contract coming to an end later this year, the two-time world champion says a change of diet and a new approach to fitness has led him to conclude that he has a lot of ...Keep reading

Malukas, 22, is entering his third season in the IndyCar Series but first with Arrow McLaren after being confirmed to its 2024 lineup in last year’s season finale at Laguna Seca.According to a team representative, Malukas sustained the injury while “biking out west”.Although a facture has been confirmed, the current plan is for him to undergo an operation on Tuesday afternoon.It is not known ...Keep reading

Of the 42 teams entered, only the 36 chartered teams are locked into the event. The six 'open' teams will battle for the four remaining spots on the grid. They are all part-time efforts and made up of the following drivers: Jimmie Johnson in the No. 84, BJ McLeod in the No. 78, Anthony Alfredo in the No. 62, David Ragan in the No. 60, Kaz Grala in the No. 36 and a yet to be announced driver in ...Keep reading

Meyer Shank Racing isn't one of the current series heavyweights, but with his experience with the team and hybrid racing in GTP, and the expertise of a former rival-turned-team-mate, the Briton is eager to get goingThe path to the IndyCar Series for Blomqvist is not so much about the road less travelled, but rather one paved in perseverance: Born in Britain, raised in New Zealand, he’s built up ...Keep reading

Aston Martin’s immense early-season form in 2023 tailed off dramatically, so a lot depends on whether it has been able to understand, recover and build on the performance that was lost throughout the course of last season.As has become the norm with these launches, let’s start by looking at the sidepods: Aston, just as it did with Alpine’s gulley-style sidepod concept last season, has taken ...Keep reading

LMC, which fields two full-time entries in NASCAR’s Cup Series and a part-time entry for Johnson, will make its Extreme E debut in the Feb. 17-18 Desert X Prix with drivers Travis Pastrana and Gray Leadbetter.Extreme E is an FIA-sanctioned international off-road racing series that uses spec silhouette electric SUVs to race in remote parts of the world. By the 2025 season, the series will ...Keep reading

The Canadian had a difficult start to the season after he was injured in a cycling accident and had to miss the Bahrain test last year.He spent much of the year trying to regain momentum relative to Alonso, who had a flying start with the team and logged a string of early podium finishes.Stroll also had some reliability issues that struck him in races and also cost him valuable track time in ...Keep reading

Massey, 27, has just 14 previous starts in the NASCAR Truck Series.His most recent appearance came with the Young's Motorsports team, competing at Richmond Raceway last year. His best result as Texas earlier in the same season, finishing 11th.Massey also has 52 NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, scoring three top-tens in his career there. The Georgia native earned his best finish at his home track of ...Keep reading